If there are no phone calls threats etc to his family, then what I said doesn't matter at all.
But let's think about it, it's the day of the internet, people can make anon calls. We've seen the worse of the worse on the internet.
I really don't put it beyond people's capability to make a threatening phone call including his family, in fact I would almost guarantee it would happen. Maybe I just don't have a lot of faith in humanity but it doesn't seem far fetched at all. I'm sure people have done it for far less.
Yea good, maybe next when some 12 year old beaks off in Halo we can find out who they are and send them thousand of threatening emails and harass them.
People are threatening his child anyway, what, just going a tiny bit further seems way to much?
He should be affected professionally, not harassed like this in his personal life. How would you like it if someone thought your post here on slashdot made you a super asshole and decided you deserved a taste of the same medicine? So now you yourself have 7000+ spam threats and phone calls threatening your family.
Wait, because of a couple of comments, you're saying his entire family deserves to be threatened with physical violence?
Maybe I'm interpreting what you said wrong, but it sounds to me like being a douche in an email warrants violent threats against children. If that's how this world works, then what, next time some customer is a complete douche to me for absolutely no reason, I have the right to threaten their family with physical violence now?
Just because he mentions his son using it to insult someone else doesn't mean you have the right to insult the child back. His kid did nothing and knows nothing of what's happening. Would you punish all kids for their parents?
We may want to insult him for the way he treated a customer, as we're all customers are one point or another so it hits a nerve. But let's face it, a lot of people who are disgusted with him aren't any better.
Everyone started to flame him, spam his email accounts, call him and threaten him and his wife? I mean they even brought his two year old son into this.
It's a shame day not only for him and the way he treated a customer, but for the rest of us on the internet as well for the way we responded to him.
This really has been blown way out, people should leave him alone and maybe not use him as a business as punishment, but not threatening phone calls etc.
My job requires me to have access to web applications. I can simulate it using a different browser, or my phone.
Email notifications are exceptionally important for mobile techs. I've provided mobile support, I've needed a smart phone. I use it to tether internet if I need it on the go. I receive and respond to inquires or get additional information by email.
It syncs with my appointments so I can keep track of them all on the go.
Do I need one? No. Is it damn handy? Sure.
Chances are most people in general don't even need a cell phone, they're just convienent.
Also - anyone getting a new plan say in B.C with a dumb phone will not get a plan for 4$, just a little bit more lands them data. They did it intentionally to encourage people to upgrade since the price difference isn't much different.
I highly doubt this is a system to/reward/ those who eat healthy. I'm rather confident that employee's prior to this coming out will not find that their final paychecks are worth more if they eat healthy than they were previously.
In fact I'm sure it's the opposite thought. Mask the concept by promoting 'health' so everyone cheers it on. No one dares to say 'That plan sucks, let us be unhealthy'
What they're really doing is a strategic move based on the current health and obesity of America. They're cashing in on it. They figured out since most people are eating unhealthy, that can disguise a penalty system as a healthy concern program. If most of your employees are eating unhealthy, and you can base their final pay cheque on it, then in fact, you just found a way to pay most of your employees less money when they leave.
Cha-ching $$$. They save money, good PR for promoting public health, and no one will contest it.
Eventually I'm sure there will be a way to shape people's eating habbits to a specific companies 'healthy' food in some sort of "unoffical" understanding that is mutually beneficial in a finacial way.
People who pirate games would be using a fixed executable that would render the internet part NULLIFIED. That means it'll work offline, online, copied, whatever.
The only people who will suffer will be consumers who purchase the game legally. Any of them with technical knowledge will be tempted to use a fixed exec anyway so they don't have any hassle with their legit purchase of the game.
It's the same old responsilbity redirect that humans do.
My kids a horror, must be society. Don't look at my parenting, look at those unsafe playgrounds! It's not my responsiblity to teach my kids what to eat, it's YOURS that my kids ate a peanut. I don't like that they're using cell phones and ignoring me, it causes CANCER pay attention to me instead! I yell at my kids and have poor relationships that result in lots of fights, but it's the VIOLENT video games fault, I'm not a bad parent.
No one believes they're poor at taking care of their own child and that somehow their method of raising them could be at fault. We'll continue to see this everywhere we look as it becomes more acceptable by mainstream cultures.
I 'played' mass effect before I purchased it, and it also garunteed me to buy the second one when it came out and I'm buying the third one.
In my opinion, so far if someone can afford it and they actually enjoyed the game, they'll buy it. For the extra features, priestige of supporting the developer and online play.
I'll admit when I was a child I had played a lot of games that I didn't purchase, because I had no money to do so with. Now a days I buy so many it's crazy, and even old ones I won't really play just for the nostalgia of it.
I've SEEN all three original star wars, and I still bought a boxed set. You get the picture. I'd say it's safe to say a lot of pirates care more about content and quality, and refuse to crap money down the toliet on cheap gimmicks of no fun. I don't want to buy a game that takes 30 hours to complete and I get bored of it in the first hour.
I delete files for the following reasons:
-To make room on my hard drive.
-I don't want it stumbled upon.
-Part of program removal.
-It's old and outdated, and I have a more recent version.
-Security E.G CREDIT CARD INFORMATION.
Why would I want a program hanging on to files? Cluttering my computer, preventing files being overwritten, just so someone else can have it?
Soon everyone will be claiming that your USB stick of the game isn't the real USB stick and that their's commanding them to kill you for for worshiping the wrong version of the game.
Modders will be burned at the computer recycling center for modcraft! Heresy is afoot!
Okay, average user who acquires software or music, anything that infringes on IP may not exactly know how to change their DNS server or figure out right away that they can entire the IP directly..
That's because so far, they've had no reason to learn that information and put it to use. Give them a reason, and just like the knowledge of using a torrent it will spread and common users will know how to do it.
"Herpa derp, I can't access this site. Oh hi joe can you access it still? Oh you can? How do you do it? Oh I have to do what? google for dns server? Hmm..let me read that...oh, that's easy, just hit properties and enter in a new dns server manually..oh that was easy..oh hello TPB!"
I will herp and I will derp and blow all your computers down!
As with human nature, someone will go to far sooner or later, and cause a reform in patents. When I say 'go to far' I mean 'cost many corporations money simultanously'. They hate that, and as soon as you do that, sh*t hits the fan.
Maybe this will be it, when every cell phone carrier, msn messnger, yahoo, all of it, has to pay royalties. Suddenly software patents might have special rules. Or they'll just destroy their patent grounds. Should be fun to see though, and will have to see what the patent is actually for;)
Seriously, do companies need to profit on everything we do? They're as bad as the government. Tax when you get paid, taxes on the things you bought, taxes on the money you give, taxes on money you save, taxes on property you own. A single dollar gets taxed for like 50% of it.
Gaming companies are trying to do the same! Pay money when you buy the game(I support that) Pay money to keep playing it (I understand it, content updates, servers, you know, mmo stuff) but now money when you sell it to someone else? They have to pay to use it? You have to pay for items in game in a lot of games now too!
3rd parties need to back off, get their hands out of my pocket before I snap it off. I'm tired of all these third parties trying to get their grubby little hands in your wallet EVERY time you bring it out.
Just like the church used fear of god for control (E.G Confess ALL your wrong doings and you'll be forgiven, go to heaven etc...although the church might send you to the afterlife personally). The Government is now using "Give us all your information so you can go places without being bombed on the way!" If the Government doesn't like what you're up to, they can start to flag people for constant tax audits, security checks, you name it.
It's really just a control mechanism, always has been, most likely always will be. Doesn't mean that there wasn't an initial reason, but let's face it. Security is just like computer security. Build a better anti-virus, hackers build a better virus. Find better ways to screen for terrorists, terrorists find a better way to get past screening.
Who suffers? Everyone else caught in between. Consumers have to pay for techs to fix their computers, antivirus software etc. Travelers get hasseled by TSA, things put in places where no one should have to unless that's there thing, body scans, extra taxes to pay for it all. Extra costs to flights, wasted time.
Both things just create jobs, additional ways to waste money and make average joe pay.
(P.S, I work in IT, and I get a lot of work thanks to malware etc:D)
People nailed it in the comments, minecraft works due to it's cubic design which reduce the performance requirements to achieve a smooth running world.
What needs to be done now is worlds in a game to be cubed into sections. You can let the graphic cards and processors handle texture generation (I've seen some neat dynamic demos) and even have scripted texture rules. The terrain itself can be layered the same way it is now, but allow people to make changes in a cuboid section, effectively reducing the complexity of the destructable terrain. It will reduce the level of detail a player can apply to a landscape and to sculpture a bit, as even with the nice graphics, texture overlay, structures would still be built in roughly cubed dimensions (E.G if you built something out of dirt, you could still guess it's 4 cubes wide, even though textures make it look like a slightly dynamic shape and size). Add a few rules that adjust dynamic shape parameters based on surrounding blocks and wala, a dynamic terrain environment that can have detail levels like the crytek engine and the performance of minecraft.
So even though other games have done similar things as minecraft, nothing is identical. It's 3d, and an entire world.
Well ultimately it's a step in the right direction. As cars become more automated and the technology is expanded, newer technology will be produced that will increase safety for everyone, including those who cycle.
We need to remember that we both play equal parts in accidents, cyclists and drivers a like. Many cyclists run red lights, never give right away to cars that have it, etc. These cause accidents. I get the impression that some cyclists are quite arrogant and think cars should yield to them.
Let's face it, cars are made out of metal and other components that are much stonger than squishy humans. Although drivers need to be careful too as to not injure or kill someone, ultimately you need to be aware to protect yourself, as/you/ will be the one who dies, regardless of who is right or wrong.
If cyclists obeyed the same rules as car drivers did, it would reduce the amount of accidents. It doesn't make sense from a safety standard to have drivers follow two sets of rules, ones for other cars and how they move, and then bikers who don't feel they should have to stop at lights, signal and so fourth.
It adds an unnecessary layer of complexity to it. Don't feel too singled out either, people still get into accidents with other cars too. Hence the word accidents. We're not perfect, none of us are.
But when cars can drive themselves on the other hand;)
I disagree, I think it's perfect fine that he advertises it. He should, partly because he'd come under a lot of scrutiny if people thought he didn't.
Anyone else concerned with the political, social or other unimportant aspects (in my opinion) of it aren't really thinking about the people in less fortunate circumstances.
People living in places without water and toliets really don't care if you think it's a social stunt, or just to advertise, or whatever the reason is. There only concern is receiving a better quality of life and they don't care why, they're just thankful for it.
He can do it to recieve an award or a parade for all I care, as long as people get the help they need.
All officer cars have automatic public speed recordings and must have a case number assigned to each incident that a cop was either speeding or using their lights to run a red alight. Also dash cam recording, so we can see if they were warning someone or just being impatient.
Heck if the people can be logged, let's start monitoring and logging all government activities too, and assign an international comittee to report any suspicious government acitvities, and habbits. So we can figure their agenda and day to day plans like they enjoy doing to us.
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Completely agree with that. His professional career in that field should likely be ended.
I apologize for misinterpreting what you said.
If there are no phone calls threats etc to his family, then what I said doesn't matter at all.
But let's think about it, it's the day of the internet, people can make anon calls. We've seen the worse of the worse on the internet.
I really don't put it beyond people's capability to make a threatening phone call including his family, in fact I would almost guarantee it would happen.
Maybe I just don't have a lot of faith in humanity but it doesn't seem far fetched at all. I'm sure people have done it for far less.
Yea good, maybe next when some 12 year old beaks off in Halo we can find out who they are and send them thousand of threatening emails and harass them.
People are threatening his child anyway, what, just going a tiny bit further seems way to much?
He should be affected professionally, not harassed like this in his personal life. How would you like it if someone thought your post here on slashdot made you a super asshole and decided you deserved a taste of the same medicine? So now you yourself have 7000+ spam threats and phone calls threatening your family.
That sounds good to you?
Wait, because of a couple of comments, you're saying his entire family deserves to be threatened with physical violence?
Maybe I'm interpreting what you said wrong, but it sounds to me like being a douche in an email warrants violent threats against children.
If that's how this world works, then what, next time some customer is a complete douche to me for absolutely no reason, I have the right to threaten their family with physical violence now?
Just because he mentions his son using it to insult someone else doesn't mean you have the right to insult the child back. His kid did nothing and knows nothing of what's happening. Would you punish all kids for their parents?
We may want to insult him for the way he treated a customer, as we're all customers are one point or another so it hits a nerve. But let's face it, a lot of people who are disgusted with him aren't any better.
Everyone started to flame him, spam his email accounts, call him and threaten him and his wife? I mean they even brought his two year old son into this.
It's a shame day not only for him and the way he treated a customer, but for the rest of us on the internet as well for the way we responded to him.
This really has been blown way out, people should leave him alone and maybe not use him as a business as punishment, but not threatening phone calls etc.
My job requires me to have access to web applications.
I can simulate it using a different browser, or my phone.
Email notifications are exceptionally important for mobile techs. I've provided mobile support, I've needed a smart phone.
I use it to tether internet if I need it on the go.
I receive and respond to inquires or get additional information by email.
It syncs with my appointments so I can keep track of them all on the go.
Do I need one? No. Is it damn handy? Sure.
Chances are most people in general don't even need a cell phone, they're just convienent.
Also - anyone getting a new plan say in B.C with a dumb phone will not get a plan for 4$, just a little bit more lands them data. They did it intentionally to encourage people to upgrade since the price difference isn't much different.
So...your point is moot.
I highly doubt this is a system to /reward/ those who eat healthy. I'm rather confident that employee's prior to this coming out will not find that their final paychecks are worth more if they eat healthy than they were previously.
In fact I'm sure it's the opposite thought. Mask the concept by promoting 'health' so everyone cheers it on. No one dares to say 'That plan sucks, let us be unhealthy'
What they're really doing is a strategic move based on the current health and obesity of America. They're cashing in on it. They figured out since most people are eating unhealthy, that can disguise a penalty system as a healthy concern program. If most of your employees are eating unhealthy, and you can base their final pay cheque on it, then in fact, you just found a way to pay most of your employees less money when they leave.
Cha-ching $$$. They save money, good PR for promoting public health, and no one will contest it.
Eventually I'm sure there will be a way to shape people's eating habbits to a specific companies 'healthy' food in some sort of "unoffical" understanding that is mutually beneficial in a finacial way.
It's just two NAT's? I know.. Genius right? That way, so while I'm using NAT, if I want to use NAT, I can!
You have to use a new key combination and Microsofts Kinect.
Ctrl+alt+kick the tower over.
People who pirate games would be using a fixed executable that would render the internet part NULLIFIED. That means it'll work offline, online, copied, whatever.
The only people who will suffer will be consumers who purchase the game legally. Any of them with technical knowledge will be tempted to use a fixed exec anyway so they don't have any hassle with their legit purchase of the game.
Then rivals will pay for -1 on their competitors. Let the sh*t hit the fan!
I see the effect of them taxing my pay cheques and never see the cause...
Launch all zig and make hackers hack themself! Set gateway IP to 127.0.0.1!...
Wait...why we haz no internetz?
It's the same old responsilbity redirect that humans do.
My kids a horror, must be society. Don't look at my parenting, look at those unsafe playgrounds! It's not my responsiblity to teach my kids what to eat, it's YOURS that my kids ate a peanut. I don't like that they're using cell phones and ignoring me, it causes CANCER pay attention to me instead! I yell at my kids and have poor relationships that result in lots of fights, but it's the VIOLENT video games fault, I'm not a bad parent.
No one believes they're poor at taking care of their own child and that somehow their method of raising them could be at fault. We'll continue to see this everywhere we look as it becomes more acceptable by mainstream cultures.
I 'played' mass effect before I purchased it, and it also garunteed me to buy the second one when it came out and I'm buying the third one. In my opinion, so far if someone can afford it and they actually enjoyed the game, they'll buy it. For the extra features, priestige of supporting the developer and online play. I'll admit when I was a child I had played a lot of games that I didn't purchase, because I had no money to do so with. Now a days I buy so many it's crazy, and even old ones I won't really play just for the nostalgia of it. I've SEEN all three original star wars, and I still bought a boxed set. You get the picture. I'd say it's safe to say a lot of pirates care more about content and quality, and refuse to crap money down the toliet on cheap gimmicks of no fun. I don't want to buy a game that takes 30 hours to complete and I get bored of it in the first hour.
I delete files for the following reasons: -To make room on my hard drive. -I don't want it stumbled upon. -Part of program removal. -It's old and outdated, and I have a more recent version. -Security E.G CREDIT CARD INFORMATION. Why would I want a program hanging on to files? Cluttering my computer, preventing files being overwritten, just so someone else can have it?
Soon everyone will be claiming that your USB stick of the game isn't the real USB stick and that their's commanding them to kill you for for worshiping the wrong version of the game. Modders will be burned at the computer recycling center for modcraft! Heresy is afoot!
Okay, average user who acquires software or music, anything that infringes on IP may not exactly know how to change their DNS server or figure out right away that they can entire the IP directly.. That's because so far, they've had no reason to learn that information and put it to use. Give them a reason, and just like the knowledge of using a torrent it will spread and common users will know how to do it. "Herpa derp, I can't access this site. Oh hi joe can you access it still? Oh you can? How do you do it? Oh I have to do what? google for dns server? Hmm..let me read that...oh, that's easy, just hit properties and enter in a new dns server manually..oh that was easy..oh hello TPB!" I will herp and I will derp and blow all your computers down!
As with human nature, someone will go to far sooner or later, and cause a reform in patents. When I say 'go to far' I mean 'cost many corporations money simultanously'. They hate that, and as soon as you do that, sh*t hits the fan. Maybe this will be it, when every cell phone carrier, msn messnger, yahoo, all of it, has to pay royalties. Suddenly software patents might have special rules. Or they'll just destroy their patent grounds. Should be fun to see though, and will have to see what the patent is actually for ;)
Seriously, do companies need to profit on everything we do? They're as bad as the government. Tax when you get paid, taxes on the things you bought, taxes on the money you give, taxes on money you save, taxes on property you own. A single dollar gets taxed for like 50% of it. Gaming companies are trying to do the same! Pay money when you buy the game(I support that) Pay money to keep playing it (I understand it, content updates, servers, you know, mmo stuff) but now money when you sell it to someone else? They have to pay to use it? You have to pay for items in game in a lot of games now too! 3rd parties need to back off, get their hands out of my pocket before I snap it off. I'm tired of all these third parties trying to get their grubby little hands in your wallet EVERY time you bring it out.
Just like the church used fear of god for control (E.G Confess ALL your wrong doings and you'll be forgiven, go to heaven etc...although the church might send you to the afterlife personally). The Government is now using "Give us all your information so you can go places without being bombed on the way!" If the Government doesn't like what you're up to, they can start to flag people for constant tax audits, security checks, you name it. It's really just a control mechanism, always has been, most likely always will be. Doesn't mean that there wasn't an initial reason, but let's face it. Security is just like computer security. Build a better anti-virus, hackers build a better virus. Find better ways to screen for terrorists, terrorists find a better way to get past screening. Who suffers? Everyone else caught in between. Consumers have to pay for techs to fix their computers, antivirus software etc. Travelers get hasseled by TSA, things put in places where no one should have to unless that's there thing, body scans, extra taxes to pay for it all. Extra costs to flights, wasted time. Both things just create jobs, additional ways to waste money and make average joe pay. (P.S, I work in IT, and I get a lot of work thanks to malware etc :D)
People nailed it in the comments, minecraft works due to it's cubic design which reduce the performance requirements to achieve a smooth running world. What needs to be done now is worlds in a game to be cubed into sections. You can let the graphic cards and processors handle texture generation (I've seen some neat dynamic demos) and even have scripted texture rules. The terrain itself can be layered the same way it is now, but allow people to make changes in a cuboid section, effectively reducing the complexity of the destructable terrain. It will reduce the level of detail a player can apply to a landscape and to sculpture a bit, as even with the nice graphics, texture overlay, structures would still be built in roughly cubed dimensions (E.G if you built something out of dirt, you could still guess it's 4 cubes wide, even though textures make it look like a slightly dynamic shape and size). Add a few rules that adjust dynamic shape parameters based on surrounding blocks and wala, a dynamic terrain environment that can have detail levels like the crytek engine and the performance of minecraft. So even though other games have done similar things as minecraft, nothing is identical. It's 3d, and an entire world.
Well ultimately it's a step in the right direction. As cars become more automated and the technology is expanded, newer technology will be produced that will increase safety for everyone, including those who cycle. We need to remember that we both play equal parts in accidents, cyclists and drivers a like. Many cyclists run red lights, never give right away to cars that have it, etc. These cause accidents. I get the impression that some cyclists are quite arrogant and think cars should yield to them. Let's face it, cars are made out of metal and other components that are much stonger than squishy humans. Although drivers need to be careful too as to not injure or kill someone, ultimately you need to be aware to protect yourself, as /you/ will be the one who dies, regardless of who is right or wrong.
If cyclists obeyed the same rules as car drivers did, it would reduce the amount of accidents. It doesn't make sense from a safety standard to have drivers follow two sets of rules, ones for other cars and how they move, and then bikers who don't feel they should have to stop at lights, signal and so fourth.
It adds an unnecessary layer of complexity to it. Don't feel too singled out either, people still get into accidents with other cars too. Hence the word accidents. We're not perfect, none of us are.
But when cars can drive themselves on the other hand ;)
I disagree, I think it's perfect fine that he advertises it. He should, partly because he'd come under a lot of scrutiny if people thought he didn't. Anyone else concerned with the political, social or other unimportant aspects (in my opinion) of it aren't really thinking about the people in less fortunate circumstances. People living in places without water and toliets really don't care if you think it's a social stunt, or just to advertise, or whatever the reason is. There only concern is receiving a better quality of life and they don't care why, they're just thankful for it. He can do it to recieve an award or a parade for all I care, as long as people get the help they need.
All officer cars have automatic public speed recordings and must have a case number assigned to each incident that a cop was either speeding or using their lights to run a red alight. Also dash cam recording, so we can see if they were warning someone or just being impatient. Heck if the people can be logged, let's start monitoring and logging all government activities too, and assign an international comittee to report any suspicious government acitvities, and habbits. So we can figure their agenda and day to day plans like they enjoy doing to us.