Huh. I keep my MP3's in a shared directory, so that's not a problem for me.
One of the things about encryption: If you encrypt everything, it's harder for an attacker to determine what's important and what's not. If I can encrypt my entire home directory at essentially no cost, why not do it?
I believe it's just your user directory. And, since it has been (in my experience) almost totally transparent, I'd say it doesn't suck very much at all.
How nice for you. Your objection is still silly. Those of us who can manage to not drive trucks over our keys in the dead of winter will still be able to start our cars if this concept (you know, like in a "concept car"?) ever comes close to reality.
Magnify your opinion by the 30 people who volunteered to stay late to test it for Origin, each of whom was incredibly passionate about trying to make the game worthy of the original, only to be thwarted by EA management and ignored by the game's creator.
"Disappointed" doesn't cover it. "Relentlessly bitter" gets close. "Destroyed my commitment to being part of the video game industry" is also a fair statement.
I don't remember arcade games or Nintendo games fondly (they weren't really a part of my life), but I remember playing Wing Commander and Scorched Earth. Both superb games.
We'll see which of today's games will stand the test of time. Final Fantasy VII will always be one of my favorites. I was shocked how much fun I had with GTA3. There are good games out there...but 90% of everything is crap.
I can tell you from personal, professional experience that there was nothing fast to market about Wing Commander IV.
WC4 sold well, but not well enough to pay for its film budget. Had it been shot on video (like 3), it would have been a financial success.
I can't judge anymore whether the game is any fun. I've probably played it more times than anybody else on Earth, and just thinking about it makes me numb.
Prophecy was a neat concept, and it had some rather fun ideas for the space combat genre. Unfortunately, many of those fun ideas got cut to get the game out the door. This game was much more rushed to market than WC4.
Don't even get me started on Privateer II: The Darkening.
Ah, so because Anheuser Busch bottles water, all corporations are Good.
I think that's a bit of a distortion.
I didn't say all corporations are evil. I said corporations sometimes do evil because they are not constrained to do good, because (by and large) they don't have consciences.
You and I differ on our perceptions of the relative preponderance of "good" vs. "evil" companies. I submit to you that, if you look at the list of the biggest companies in the world, you can find a long list of unsavory things they've done to get where they are. I maintain that corporations are bound to safeguard the fiscal interests of their shareholders ahead of other interests. I agree that that SHOULD mean that they consider the long term health and well being of the rest of us, but, in practice, that is the exception and not the rule among large, powerful companies.
Can corporations be run responsibly, and for the greater public good? Absolutely. As I mentioned, I happen to work for one. We aren't on the Fortune 500.
Then again, since you're resorting to name-calling, I don't anticipate being able to have a civil conversation with you. I hope you don't bother with Slashdot anymore. It would be nice to decrease by one the ad hominem attacks.
Corporations are NOT, per se, evil. However, they often do evil things, because there is no constraint on them to do good. They are chartered to put shareholder value above all other concerns, and often they take a very shortsighted view.
Of course there are mutual benefits. However, the lack of accountability and greater power that corporations enjoy make them more apt to do evil (and do greater evil) than Joe Citizen.
It's not noble at all. Employers aren't in business because they have noble aims. They are in business to make money.
There's nothing in the world wrong with that: I like money, and I'd love to make more of it.
But it's not noble.
Frankly, my company (which provides emergency roadside assistance to, well, everybody) is pretty high up on the "Social Good" sort of list. People pay us to help them when they're in trouble. We pride ourselves on providing rapid, thorough, courteous service. But, at the end of the day, we do those things in order to make this business run, not for "noble" aims.
Charitable giving is, indeed, a noble cause. I appreciate it when companies do that. I am glad to patronize companies that do that. However, I'm not going to start attributing high-minded ideals to them, because corporations are, by design, amoral entities.
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" I have a hard time understanding the logic of inaction on environmental problems"
You're familiar with the notion of "unintended consequences", I hope? Take the examples of MTBE in California and the whole freon debacle.
The suggestions you make are not zero cost. "We have to DO SOMETHING!" is not a good public policy.
OK, I'll figure out how to get people to stop using internal combustion engines, you figure out how to plug the volcanos.
You first.
If the disk is damaged, I might not be able to recover it anyway. If it's not, I can put it in another machine.
In other words, that risk is a trade off I'm willing to make for security.
I just pointed iTunes at the location where I had my library. Hasn't broken yet...
Huh. I keep my MP3's in a shared directory, so that's not a problem for me.
One of the things about encryption: If you encrypt everything, it's harder for an attacker to determine what's important and what's not. If I can encrypt my entire home directory at essentially no cost, why not do it?
I believe it's just your user directory. And, since it has been (in my experience) almost totally transparent, I'd say it doesn't suck very much at all.
Stupid fingers. Stupid mittens.
How is this worse than what happens with alarm key fobs? I hear those are pretty common nowadays...
My mittens fold back off of my digits when I need dexterity. Your mittens are clearly inferior. : )
How nice for you. Your objection is still silly. Those of us who can manage to not drive trucks over our keys in the dead of winter will still be able to start our cars if this concept (you know, like in a "concept car"?) ever comes close to reality.
Bend over. I'll show you.
I bet your car alarm remote doesn't fare so well.
They certainly do have things that are better to do. The problem is, those things aren't as profitable as playing "The Sky Is/Isn't Falling!"
" I was disappointed with that one."
Magnify your opinion by the 30 people who volunteered to stay late to test it for Origin, each of whom was incredibly passionate about trying to make the game worthy of the original, only to be thwarted by EA management and ignored by the game's creator.
"Disappointed" doesn't cover it. "Relentlessly bitter" gets close. "Destroyed my commitment to being part of the video game industry" is also a fair statement.
"cindy sheehan has a post about jews who took soldiers away for war in iraq and not being here to stop the looting"
WTF?
"All environmental issues are "invented" by "tree huggers" and "the liberal media". End of discussion."
Because that's not, like, a sound bite or anything. Proof by assertion is alive and well!
I don't remember arcade games or Nintendo games fondly (they weren't really a part of my life), but I remember playing Wing Commander and Scorched Earth. Both superb games.
We'll see which of today's games will stand the test of time. Final Fantasy VII will always be one of my favorites. I was shocked how much fun I had with GTA3. There are good games out there...but 90% of everything is crap.
Ummm...Counterstrike? I think that was pretty popular...
Serious question:
What are you playing right now? Me, I can't wait for We Love Katamari. I cried when it was delayed until the 20th...
No barrier to entry...are you mad? Do you have any idea how much it costs to put a game on a shelf at BestBuy?
I can tell you from personal, professional experience that there was nothing fast to market about Wing Commander IV.
WC4 sold well, but not well enough to pay for its film budget. Had it been shot on video (like 3), it would have been a financial success.
I can't judge anymore whether the game is any fun. I've probably played it more times than anybody else on Earth, and just thinking about it makes me numb.
Prophecy was a neat concept, and it had some rather fun ideas for the space combat genre. Unfortunately, many of those fun ideas got cut to get the game out the door. This game was much more rushed to market than WC4.
Don't even get me started on Privateer II: The Darkening.
Ah, so because Anheuser Busch bottles water, all corporations are Good.
I think that's a bit of a distortion.
I didn't say all corporations are evil. I said corporations sometimes do evil because they are not constrained to do good, because (by and large) they don't have consciences.
You and I differ on our perceptions of the relative preponderance of "good" vs. "evil" companies. I submit to you that, if you look at the list of the biggest companies in the world, you can find a long list of unsavory things they've done to get where they are. I maintain that corporations are bound to safeguard the fiscal interests of their shareholders ahead of other interests. I agree that that SHOULD mean that they consider the long term health and well being of the rest of us, but, in practice, that is the exception and not the rule among large, powerful companies.
Can corporations be run responsibly, and for the greater public good? Absolutely. As I mentioned, I happen to work for one. We aren't on the Fortune 500.
Then again, since you're resorting to name-calling, I don't anticipate being able to have a civil conversation with you. I hope you don't bother with Slashdot anymore. It would be nice to decrease by one the ad hominem attacks.
Corporations are NOT, per se, evil. However, they often do evil things, because there is no constraint on them to do good. They are chartered to put shareholder value above all other concerns, and often they take a very shortsighted view.
Of course there are mutual benefits. However, the lack of accountability and greater power that corporations enjoy make them more apt to do evil (and do greater evil) than Joe Citizen.
It's not noble at all. Employers aren't in business because they have noble aims. They are in business to make money.
There's nothing in the world wrong with that: I like money, and I'd love to make more of it.
But it's not noble.
Frankly, my company (which provides emergency roadside assistance to, well, everybody) is pretty high up on the "Social Good" sort of list. People pay us to help them when they're in trouble. We pride ourselves on providing rapid, thorough, courteous service. But, at the end of the day, we do those things in order to make this business run, not for "noble" aims.
Charitable giving is, indeed, a noble cause. I appreciate it when companies do that. I am glad to patronize companies that do that. However, I'm not going to start attributing high-minded ideals to them, because corporations are, by design, amoral entities.
OK, YOU go drink the stuff that's on Canal Street right now. Go ahead, I'll wait. Hope your cholera booster is up to date.
There's not much difference between that flood water and sewage.
I'll take bottled, thanks. Hell, I'd even drink Budweiser, which is almost the same thing, only tastes worse.