I agree totally. Option three is where I normally wind up, I just simply have too much going on to spend my time glued to the television. I do enjoy Battlestar Gallactica though, and have used iTunes to download a show if I happened to miss it.
However, the last time I tried this the verion of iTunes on my machine was failing to update and therefore couldnt play the show. My wife's computer was very choppy for some reason, possibly inferior hardware, but she had played several episodes before that... so something was broken on the codec side. We eventually settled on a torrent ( not feeling so bad as we had paid for the damned show) , and after sorting out a player and codec to display the show, we got to watch it.
Having lived through this, NBC deciding to control how I can download the show doesnt bother me any more than iTunes controlling how I download the show. I don't see one action as any more or less evil and controlling than the other.
IT is novel and new, but the distribution channels obviously need to change. I can see a time ( soon ) when popular shows will release to DVD very quickly. If iTunes isnt willing to play, maybe NBC has some other thoughts on how to get the shows out there.
This is exactly correct. If I pay for the CD , why should it not work? Beyond the ability to share or lend to a friend, These things stop the game from just working for the person who actually paid for it. It seems that everything I purchase that isn't an online MMO type game is so screwed up that it refuses to run unless I hunt down every process on the box to proove to the game that I am not trying to make a copy. My intention is to play the game, so this is annoying. I end up downloading no-cd cracks every time, and I am tired of it.
When I can put in the disk, install the game, and "just play", then I will give my money for their efforts. Until then...
I don't understand why I should buy this game if I absolutely disagree with the conduct of the distributor. I have many games that I really like ( starcraft , etc) that i continually install on new machines, or mabe delete for a time and then put back when I feel like another round. If this game is that good, maybe I will want to play it again in several years. If the distributors insist on treating me as a potential criminal for the rights to view their content, then they can fail if I have anything to say about it. The price is too high for me, so I will continue playing Madden clones or reading books, or playing instruments, or riding skateboards and bikes. I have other things I can do, and not being willing to tolerate conduct that offends me is my option. If this concept gains steam with enough people, it is not the people's fault that the industry suffers. It is the industry's fault for treating their customers as theives.
Strange that during a training session the instructor consistently referred to the underlying platform as a highly modified RedHat. They didn't even try to claim that this was anything else, or even just their own Linux, they used the brand name of the starting point.
I am similarly "boycotting" HD also, and so I agree with the parent. I am not just waiting for HD to be easily cracked, although that would be one solution to the problem. I am waiting for HD to do what it says it will do without being incredibly painful for me.
At this point in time, getting a full HD output takes hours of research between compatibility of components ( oh , this one is HDMI1.2, and your blue ray is 1.3 , sorry). I have a very hard time justifying spending my time and money to be treated like this. The continuing battle is forcing constant unannounced hardware changes that will not allow the spec to settle to the point that everything just works anytime soon.
When I spend my money on a monitor or TV that can display the full spec, the hardware to read the disc (either in my pc or just a stand-alone) and have a card in a PC that can handle the resolution, then why when I buy a disc does some arcane rule remove the ablility from all my hardware. If these rules stay in place because most people are willing to accept this, then I will just have less of my time lost on Hollywood dribble and get much better at playing guitar or painting.
Of course, once things become easily hacked I may come back around to being willing to watch as I can get my moneys worth out of the hardware, and that may allow me to consider purchasing some new gear. Until then, if my stuff is falsely limited in its capability, adn the industry insists on punishing me to stop some magical mystical entity, I will continue to not buy into the new cycle.
How about we pay them to go back every so often and cull out the crap. Even one year out of four would suffice. They get paid , we get less crap to interfere with us.
counting cards will not help you if the deck is shuffled every hand. All that is known to the player is the two cards dealt.
This was also less computing intensive than chess and checkers however as all potential outcomes were already worked through based on the substantially smaller number of outcomes. The bots were playing odds in pre-built tables, which is very far from AI. The coach program is somewhat closer, but is still no major feat. The only test in the machine was wether or not to bluff, or judge if the human is bluffing.
At first SMS was not so expensive, and sometimes it was even free. Then the carriers realized they could charge 15 cents a pop, and most users stopped needing it. The teens that dont pay their own bills continued, and the carriers believed that messaging just isn't something that the US wants. Well, we do want it, just not for the prices offered. The iphone plan of 300 messages a month is a joke most places.
You are exactly correct. I used to buy a high end motherboard every few years that would accept most of my current components, and then upgrade these as needed. At one point I didn't upgrade for about 2 years, and I got so far behind that an entire system swap is needed. This led me to just bring everything to the top of what that MoBo can hold, and just hope that I can keep playing some games.
Most of my computing use at home now has very low requirements, so I now use a nokia n770 for the majority of my needs, and boot the tower only when I have a storage or performance need.
i would agree that dupes are blemishes that add complexity and hinder the clean aesthetics of Slashdot, and should be consolidated into single articles that dupe themselves inside of themselves to avoid blemishes that add complexity and hinder clean aesthetics.
I play these kinds of games all the time. My limit is when I have to start spending too much time calculating the best way to go about managing the float and payments. I could maximize the return more, but my time relaxing is more important. This is using a 5.5 interest rate on a savings account that allows very fluid flow of funds. The end result is actully much higher than expected. I have counted the savings as raises on my salary in percentage, which doesnt come out huge, but I have also calculated this out to 2 free car payments and one month off of my mortgage every year.
It is too bad that the winner will not be determined by the consumer. The victory could be through pricing, quality, useability... whatever, but no, we will have the format decided through connections and power.
And the most important thing about keeping violent offenders locked up is to be certain that the pain level is WAY up there when someone like this gets thrown in with them.
I wont even think of denying the existence of DWB. I just dont think it applies to this situation in any way. If the black man is pulled over for driving a more expensive car than an officer feels is allowed for the darkness of skin, and bogus crimes are invented for the reason of the investigation, DWB. If someone is driving slow enough (5 mph) that an officer can several times say or yell stop before having to give up on the idea of verbally controlling traffic, then a questioning may ensue. In this case, the cop may or may not have smelled weed, but he found it.
I have had issues getting pulled over and searched for my appearance when i was not dressed up to polic expectation.
I have seen people complain that they get followed through stores because of how they are dressed, and when asked to change their clothes to see if it is a racial thing, reply that they cant change how they were born. Now, the clothes you choose to wear and the race of you parents are entirely different issues, and I believe that you story is blurring these same lines.
There may have been a different level of tolerance for a different race of driver, but that is unproveable. If the city police force over time has shown systemic patterns of abuse, that will cause extra tensions. It seems that a lot of this is a person getting punished for the crime they committed.
btw, i am not always a fan of police, have seen and been punished by police on power trips, and do not believe that smoking pot is a crime ( driving while high maybe). I just cant fathom race being the only reason for this case.
i am confused on the aspect of race in this instance. Did the cops fail to check your wifes car for drugs because she is white, or did they fail to charge her with posession because there were no drugs in the car.
It seems that both people were punished fairly under current law. If you are smoking weed in your car and get caught, then expect to get a drug related or dui type of penalty. If you cause an accident, expect to get fines and court fees.
An accident is just that \, an accident. Smoking pot while driving requires significantly more intent.
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I agree totally. Option three is where I normally wind up, I just simply have too much going on to spend my time glued to the television. I do enjoy Battlestar Gallactica though, and have used iTunes to download a show if I happened to miss it.
... so something was broken on the codec side. We eventually settled on a torrent ( not feeling so bad as we had paid for the damned show) , and after sorting out a player and codec to display the show, we got to watch it.
However, the last time I tried this the verion of iTunes on my machine was failing to update and therefore couldnt play the show. My wife's computer was very choppy for some reason, possibly inferior hardware, but she had played several episodes before that
Having lived through this, NBC deciding to control how I can download the show doesnt bother me any more than iTunes controlling how I download the show. I don't see one action as any more or less evil and controlling than the other.
IT is novel and new, but the distribution channels obviously need to change. I can see a time ( soon ) when popular shows will release to DVD very quickly. If iTunes isnt willing to play, maybe NBC has some other thoughts on how to get the shows out there.
This is exactly correct. If I pay for the CD , why should it not work? Beyond the ability to share or lend to a friend, These things stop the game from just working for the person who actually paid for it. It seems that everything I purchase that isn't an online MMO type game is so screwed up that it refuses to run unless I hunt down every process on the box to proove to the game that I am not trying to make a copy. My intention is to play the game, so this is annoying. I end up downloading no-cd cracks every time, and I am tired of it.
When I can put in the disk, install the game, and "just play", then I will give my money for their efforts. Until then...
moral choice :) , thats pretty funny .
yes, the Madden reference was only as a response to the parent. I cant recall the last time I fired up any thing from EA. Maybe pre-Sega Saturn ?
I don't understand why I should buy this game if I absolutely disagree with the conduct of the distributor. I have many games that I really like ( starcraft , etc) that i continually install on new machines, or mabe delete for a time and then put back when I feel like another round. If this game is that good, maybe I will want to play it again in several years. If the distributors insist on treating me as a potential criminal for the rights to view their content, then they can fail if I have anything to say about it. The price is too high for me, so I will continue playing Madden clones or reading books, or playing instruments, or riding skateboards and bikes. I have other things I can do, and not being willing to tolerate conduct that offends me is my option. If this concept gains steam with enough people, it is not the people's fault that the industry suffers. It is the industry's fault for treating their customers as theives.
and when my hard drive shits on itself I will have to reinstall. I guess only criminals run into faulty hardware.
Dear Mark's teacher,
Mark was late for class today because he had an important other thing to do.
Thanks and regards,
Mark's mom
Strange that during a training session the instructor consistently referred to the underlying platform as a highly modified RedHat. They didn't even try to claim that this was anything else, or even just their own Linux, they used the brand name of the starting point.
I am similarly "boycotting" HD also, and so I agree with the parent. I am not just waiting for HD to be easily cracked, although that would be one solution to the problem. I am waiting for HD to do what it says it will do without being incredibly painful for me.
At this point in time, getting a full HD output takes hours of research between compatibility of components ( oh , this one is HDMI1.2, and your blue ray is 1.3 , sorry). I have a very hard time justifying spending my time and money to be treated like this. The continuing battle is forcing constant unannounced hardware changes that will not allow the spec to settle to the point that everything just works anytime soon.
When I spend my money on a monitor or TV that can display the full spec, the hardware to read the disc (either in my pc or just a stand-alone) and have a card in a PC that can handle the resolution, then why when I buy a disc does some arcane rule remove the ablility from all my hardware. If these rules stay in place because most people are willing to accept this, then I will just have less of my time lost on Hollywood dribble and get much better at playing guitar or painting.
Of course, once things become easily hacked I may come back around to being willing to watch as I can get my moneys worth out of the hardware, and that may allow me to consider purchasing some new gear. Until then, if my stuff is falsely limited in its capability, adn the industry insists on punishing me to stop some magical mystical entity, I will continue to not buy into the new cycle.
man kill
man bash
these are my wife's favorites
How about we pay them to go back every so often and cull out the crap. Even one year out of four would suffice. They get paid , we get less crap to interfere with us.
100k on a 60 minute tape, and 600 baud... yup, I forgot all about it too !
errhhhh , orrhhhh , orrhhhh, errrhhhh, errhhhhh
I stopped as soon as Jean-Claude Van Dammes head appeared on Guiles body . I'm glad to hear it was something else that killed this for everyone else.
everyone is forgetting about the Atari 800XL ... mine even had a tape drive!
counting cards will not help you if the deck is shuffled every hand. All that is known to the player is the two cards dealt.
This was also less computing intensive than chess and checkers however as all potential outcomes were already worked through based on the substantially smaller number of outcomes. The bots were playing odds in pre-built tables, which is very far from AI. The coach program is somewhat closer, but is still no major feat. The only test in the machine was wether or not to bluff, or judge if the human is bluffing.
At first SMS was not so expensive, and sometimes it was even free. Then the carriers realized they could charge 15 cents a pop, and most users stopped needing it. The teens that dont pay their own bills continued, and the carriers believed that messaging just isn't something that the US wants. Well, we do want it, just not for the prices offered. The iphone plan of 300 messages a month is a joke most places.
You are exactly correct. I used to buy a high end motherboard every few years that would accept most of my current components, and then upgrade these as needed. At one point I didn't upgrade for about 2 years, and I got so far behind that an entire system swap is needed. This led me to just bring everything to the top of what that MoBo can hold, and just hope that I can keep playing some games.
Most of my computing use at home now has very low requirements, so I now use a nokia n770 for the majority of my needs, and boot the tower only when I have a storage or performance need.
i would agree that dupes are blemishes that add complexity and hinder the clean aesthetics of Slashdot, and should be consolidated into single articles that dupe themselves inside of themselves to avoid blemishes that add complexity and hinder clean aesthetics.
I play these kinds of games all the time. My limit is when I have to start spending too much time calculating the best way to go about managing the float and payments. I could maximize the return more, but my time relaxing is more important. This is using a 5.5 interest rate on a savings account that allows very fluid flow of funds. The end result is actully much higher than expected. I have counted the savings as raises on my salary in percentage, which doesnt come out huge, but I have also calculated this out to 2 free car payments and one month off of my mortgage every year.
It is too bad that the winner will not be determined by the consumer. The victory could be through pricing, quality, useability ... whatever, but no, we will have the format decided through connections and power.
oh damn ... that is funny
i am glad that you could not resist
And the most important thing about keeping violent offenders locked up is to be certain that the pain level is WAY up there when someone like this gets thrown in with them.
i read your post to see how creative a link to goatse was going to be this time.
I wont even think of denying the existence of DWB. I just dont think it applies to this situation in any way. If the black man is pulled over for driving a more expensive car than an officer feels is allowed for the darkness of skin, and bogus crimes are invented for the reason of the investigation, DWB. If someone is driving slow enough (5 mph) that an officer can several times say or yell stop before having to give up on the idea of verbally controlling traffic, then a questioning may ensue. In this case, the cop may or may not have smelled weed, but he found it.
I have had issues getting pulled over and searched for my appearance when i was not dressed up to polic expectation.
I have seen people complain that they get followed through stores because of how they are dressed, and when asked to change their clothes to see if it is a racial thing, reply that they cant change how they were born. Now, the clothes you choose to wear and the race of you parents are entirely different issues, and I believe that you story is blurring these same lines.
There may have been a different level of tolerance for a different race of driver, but that is unproveable. If the city police force over time has shown systemic patterns of abuse, that will cause extra tensions. It seems that a lot of this is a person getting punished for the crime they committed.
btw, i am not always a fan of police, have seen and been punished by police on power trips, and do not believe that smoking pot is a crime ( driving while high maybe). I just cant fathom race being the only reason for this case.
i am confused on the aspect of race in this instance. Did the cops fail to check your wifes car for drugs because she is white, or did they fail to charge her with posession because there were no drugs in the car.
It seems that both people were punished fairly under current law. If you are smoking weed in your car and get caught, then expect to get a drug related or dui type of penalty. If you cause an accident, expect to get fines and court fees.
An accident is just that \, an accident. Smoking pot while driving requires significantly more intent.