Congratulations, you have drunk from the Microsoft koolaid, um I mean, Fountain of Knowledge(r) and have been enlightened beyond us mortals. We are all bowing down to your superior knowledge of world. Really. We are. So you can back to your Windows friends and your support groups and tell them you have spread the Gospel of Bill and Steve to us unbelievers....
Shells which pipe XML instead of text? Is this guy an idiot? XML is written in text. And he thinks co-operation is anti-capitalist... Sigh, the poor guy is delusional.
In my experience that's not it. The are two things that have stop the average user from using it: 1) Problems installing it as a dual-boot. 2) Problems running games.
The below average user won't care about either because they don't use it, and if you don't tell them it's not Windows, they'll never really know or care.
This is just more of the new RIAA business model, threaten to sue their customers so that they can jack prices up to compensate for falling sales.
The sales are falling because they suck, but admitting that would get the heads of the RIAA companies fired, so they've got to blame someone new every year.
I'm sure that would be as acceptible an explanation as if I told the judge "assualt and battery? Surely not, I was just changing the locations of the holes in his head".
You are deliberately overlooking the material aspect of damaging the person you are stealing from in order to play the jackass.
Wow, it's like the plot of ReGenesis come alive. I suppose that's because they already knew how researchers were putting the virus DNA back together when they wrote last years overarching plot line, but still, I'm impressed at how the science seems to be accurate and well-conveyed. I wonder when (if) season 2 will appear.
This isn't the first time D&D (officially) has been merged with an RTS game. There was an earlier game called "Blood and Magic" which was poorly set in the world of the Forgotten Realms, there was even a series of FR books to support the game. It wasn't a very good rts game, though.
It's about receiving something that you should pay for, without paying for it - not about not paying in general.
So, borrowing a DVD from a friend should be illegal?
Since I didn't pay for the DVD and watched it?
I think you are trying to defend an inadequate understanding of the situation. You have forgotten (or failed to learn) that copyright exists solely to benefit the public, it does not defend a moral right.
Re:Wrong argument - need a better solution
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RIAA Sues a Child
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No that's in your head. You keep seeing "it's not theft" and substituting the words "it's not illegal" or "it's not wrong". Argue against what people write, not what you think they might believe.
Except, by taking his money you have deprived him of his possesion, thus it is theft. However, if you copied his money, it would be counterfeiting not theft. Similarly if you kill someone you may be depriving them of their life, but we call that murder not theft.
Stop being a moron and learn that there's more than 2 answers to every question. The world is more than black and white. There is more than "theft" and "not-theft". The world is full of nuances of grey, and even, occassionaly, combinations of red, blue, and green (or cyan, magenta and yellow, if you prefer).
If you are unfamiliar with George Orwell's "1984" go read it. He said "newspeak" by which he is deliberately referencing the underhanded method the music labels and their lobbyists are trying to confuse theft and copyright infringment. You see the public doesn't care about infringement (and they shouldn't).
The right to make money off of artistic works is an artifical construct to encourage the creation of those works. It only exists to server the public, not the artists, and definitely not the souless corporations who abuse the artists. In the recent history copyright holders have used the excessive amounts of money they've been making to bribe governments into providing them with more earning power by harming the public interest in the creation of artistic works.
Stealing is a crime where one person initiates force against another to deprive them of a possession for their own benefit. Infringement is an action where one person doesn't pay another for the privilege of creating a copy (at their own expense) of something the second person made.
The second one is only a crime to provide teeth to copyright laws which only exist to encourage the creation of new artistic works. There is no inherent moral right or value it protects which makes the law less than compelling in the face of companies rife with corruption and waist-deep in their own malfeasance.
"Generals who gave honest, accurate assessments of what it would take to pacify Iraq, like Gen. Shinseki, were punished. The toadies who told the civilian fools what they wanted to hear were rewarded."
This is the hallmark of Bush, and probably the one reason I really despise him. In every facet of government he has worked to increase cronyism and place yes-men. He only promotes and rewards those who agree with him, and consistently punishes those who disagree with him. Whether it's stripping scientists who come the "wrong conclusions" from research projects and replacing them with scientists who will come to the "right conclusions", or it's marginalizing his secretary of state for disagreeing with Bush's assessment of the war in Iraq., or it's appointing an incompetent friend of a friend to the head of an emergency management agency.
Alpha Centauri & Civ IV
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I really liked the ability to choose the economic model, values, security and future society attributes for my faction in Alpha Centauri, and I also like the unit editor and I was considerably disappointed when those features did not appear in Civ III.
Is there any chance we'll see those features incorporated into Civ IV?
Re:What sort of "original" game do you propose?
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Have you tried Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, BG: Dark Alliance 2, Champions of Norrath or CoN: Return to Arms, X-Men: Legends, or X-Men Legends 2?
I would consider all of these games to be evolutionary improvements on Diablo. Heck, World of Warcraft could be considered an evolutionary improvement on Diablo. These are all games with different takes on the Diablo style gameplay and are, in my opinion, significantly improved.
A Gun pointed at my head might do it. Besides being forced to choose between death (or dismemberment) and Vista, there's not much that would convince me. I'll only upgrade when I have no choice.
Seriously, many of these rules are overkill and/or impossible to enforce. At some point you have to site back and realize that employees are people too. That means they're going to use internet access for personal use, they're going to use email for personal use. Trying to block both of those just means any reasonably competent employees will immediately begin looking for a new job somewhere else. The only people you'll be left with are the lumps who have few skills and no ambition.
Particularly, forcing users to change passwords every 90 days is pretty dumb. What the hell is it supposed to accomplish anyway?
That's smart, fire the arrogant guys who work for you, and hire the even more arrogant guys to work for you on contract.
Everything I've ever seen or heard has suggested that outsourcing IT departments is on the dumbest moves any company can make. You simply can not afford to make your company entirely dependent on another company.
According to what I understand of the retail market, it doesn't really matter, they don't make much money at all off of sales of new games, instead they frequently take a loss when they have to mark the game down to discount prices to move it.
On the other hand, they make quite a bit of money on used game sales, they buy for a much lower price compared to what they sell them for.
But my question is this? Would this law ban the sale of Final Fantasy X and World of Warcraft? Both games have points where you attack and kill humans. My guess is that an issue like that will probably be decided in a court of law sooner or later.
This whole issue is a duck and cover move by software vendors. They wish to avoid their responsibility to create secure software by blaming those who reveal it doesn't work.
It's the Emperor's New Clothes in software, trying to fix the blame on the guy who points out you don't have any security, instead the guys who sold you the insecure software. Researchers have no moral or fiduciary responsbility to keep flaws in software confidential. The only benefit of keeping these flaws confidential is to the company that produced the software and to an industry where software security is frequently an afterthought.
It is not the responsibility of a researcher to keep his findings secret, it is merely polite to inform the software's owner in advance of public disclosure so they can prepare their response. I would suggest that 5 business days is good rule of thumb for minimum advance notice, this should be long enough for the company to prepare a response to the problem.
To put it simply I don't think you understand what you are saying. You say that emotion always preempts logic in decision making, and frankly I don't think that's correct given the explanation you gave earlier. Some responses are likely shortcut that way, the example you gave of jumping when poked for example. However, the conclusion that all decisions are purely emotional does not follow from the mere observation that the emotional path is shorter. The only indicates that you will have an instinctual answer to a question that you may or may not rationally choose to do.
You may not have an impulse control, but the rest of us do.
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Congratulations, you have drunk from the Microsoft koolaid, um I mean, Fountain of Knowledge(r) and have been enlightened beyond us mortals. We are all bowing down to your superior knowledge of world. Really. We are. So you can back to your Windows friends and your support groups and tell them you have spread the Gospel of Bill and Steve to us unbelievers. ...
Shells which pipe XML instead of text? Is this guy an idiot? XML is written in text. And he thinks co-operation is anti-capitalist... Sigh, the poor guy is delusional.
In my experience that's not it. The are two things that have stop the average user from using it:
1) Problems installing it as a dual-boot.
2) Problems running games.
The below average user won't care about either because they don't use it, and if you don't tell them it's not Windows, they'll never really know or care.
This is just more of the new RIAA business model, threaten to sue their customers so that they can jack prices up to compensate for falling sales.
The sales are falling because they suck, but admitting that would get the heads of the RIAA companies fired, so they've got to blame someone new every year.
I'm sure that would be as acceptible an explanation as if I told the judge "assualt and battery? Surely not, I was just changing the locations of the holes in his head".
You are deliberately overlooking the material aspect of damaging the person you are stealing from in order to play the jackass.
Wow, it's like the plot of ReGenesis come alive. I suppose that's because they already knew how researchers were putting the virus DNA back together when they wrote last years overarching plot line, but still, I'm impressed at how the science seems to be accurate and well-conveyed. I wonder when (if) season 2 will appear.
This isn't the first time D&D (officially) has been merged with an RTS game. There was an earlier game called "Blood and Magic" which was poorly set in the world of the Forgotten Realms, there was even a series of FR books to support the game. It wasn't a very good rts game, though.
It's about receiving something that you should pay for, without paying for it - not about not paying in general.
So, borrowing a DVD from a friend should be illegal?
Since I didn't pay for the DVD and watched it?
I think you are trying to defend an inadequate understanding of the situation. You have forgotten (or failed to learn) that copyright exists solely to benefit the public, it does not defend a moral right.
No that's in your head. You keep seeing "it's not theft" and substituting the words "it's not illegal" or "it's not wrong". Argue against what people write, not what you think they might believe.
Except, by taking his money you have deprived him of his possesion, thus it is theft. However, if you copied his money, it would be counterfeiting not theft. Similarly if you kill someone you may be depriving them of their life, but we call that murder not theft.
Stop being a moron and learn that there's more than 2 answers to every question. The world is more than black and white. There is more than "theft" and "not-theft". The world is full of nuances of grey, and even, occassionaly, combinations of red, blue, and green (or cyan, magenta and yellow, if you prefer).
If you are unfamiliar with George Orwell's "1984" go read it. He said "newspeak" by which he is deliberately referencing the underhanded method the music labels and their lobbyists are trying to confuse theft and copyright infringment. You see the public doesn't care about infringement (and they shouldn't).
The right to make money off of artistic works is an artifical construct to encourage the creation of those works. It only exists to server the public, not the artists, and definitely not the souless corporations who abuse the artists. In the recent history copyright holders have used the excessive amounts of money they've been making to bribe governments into providing them with more earning power by harming the public interest in the creation of artistic works.
Stealing is a crime where one person initiates force against another to deprive them of a possession for their own benefit. Infringement is an action where one person doesn't pay another for the privilege of creating a copy (at their own expense) of something the second person made.
The second one is only a crime to provide teeth to copyright laws which only exist to encourage the creation of new artistic works. There is no inherent moral right or value it protects which makes the law less than compelling in the face of companies rife with corruption and waist-deep in their own malfeasance.
Welcome to the world.
In case you hadn't noticed, everybody wants more money.
I played that, it was at best an ok game with Riddick strapped on to it to sell extra copies.
Havent they already done a book and a movie?
Though, I suppose maybe this time they may actually stick closer to the plot from the novel.
"Generals who gave honest, accurate assessments of what it would take to pacify Iraq, like Gen. Shinseki, were punished. The toadies who told the civilian fools what they wanted to hear were rewarded."
This is the hallmark of Bush, and probably the one reason I really despise him. In every facet of government he has worked to increase cronyism and place yes-men. He only promotes and rewards those who agree with him, and consistently punishes those who disagree with him. Whether it's stripping scientists who come the "wrong conclusions" from research projects and replacing them with scientists who will come to the "right conclusions", or it's marginalizing his secretary of state for disagreeing with Bush's assessment of the war in Iraq., or it's appointing an incompetent friend of a friend to the head of an emergency management agency.
I really liked the ability to choose the economic model, values, security and future society attributes for my faction in Alpha Centauri, and I also like the unit editor and I was considerably disappointed when those features did not appear in Civ III.
Is there any chance we'll see those features incorporated into Civ IV?
Have you tried Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, BG: Dark Alliance 2, Champions of Norrath or CoN: Return to Arms, X-Men: Legends, or X-Men Legends 2?
I would consider all of these games to be evolutionary improvements on Diablo. Heck, World of Warcraft could be considered an evolutionary improvement on Diablo. These are all games with different takes on the Diablo style gameplay and are, in my opinion, significantly improved.
How enlightened. Please continue to share you ignorance with the rest of us.
Any you were expecting what?
Seriously, you've just said in not so many words that any show set on a space station is boring, regardless of acting, content or plot.
A Gun pointed at my head might do it. Besides being forced to choose between death (or dismemberment) and Vista, there's not much that would convince me. I'll only upgrade when I have no choice.
Seriously, many of these rules are overkill and/or impossible to enforce. At some point you have to site back and realize that employees are people too. That means they're going to use internet access for personal use, they're going to use email for personal use. Trying to block both of those just means any reasonably competent employees will immediately begin looking for a new job somewhere else. The only people you'll be left with are the lumps who have few skills and no ambition.
Particularly, forcing users to change passwords every 90 days is pretty dumb. What the hell is it supposed to accomplish anyway?
That's smart, fire the arrogant guys who work for you, and hire the even more arrogant guys to work for you on contract.
Everything I've ever seen or heard has suggested that outsourcing IT departments is on the dumbest moves any company can make. You simply can not afford to make your company entirely dependent on another company.
According to what I understand of the retail market, it doesn't really matter, they don't make much money at all off of sales of new games, instead they frequently take a loss when they have to mark the game down to discount prices to move it.
On the other hand, they make quite a bit of money on used game sales, they buy for a much lower price compared to what they sell them for.
But my question is this? Would this law ban the sale of Final Fantasy X and World of Warcraft? Both games have points where you attack and kill humans. My guess is that an issue like that will probably be decided in a court of law sooner or later.
This whole issue is a duck and cover move by software vendors. They wish to avoid their responsibility to create secure software by blaming those who reveal it doesn't work.
It's the Emperor's New Clothes in software, trying to fix the blame on the guy who points out you don't have any security, instead the guys who sold you the insecure software. Researchers have no moral or fiduciary responsbility to keep flaws in software confidential. The only benefit of keeping these flaws confidential is to the company that produced the software and to an industry where software security is frequently an afterthought.
It is not the responsibility of a researcher to keep his findings secret, it is merely polite to inform the software's owner in advance of public disclosure so they can prepare their response. I would suggest that 5 business days is good rule of thumb for minimum advance notice, this should be long enough for the company to prepare a response to the problem.
To put it simply I don't think you understand what you are saying. You say that emotion always preempts logic in decision making, and frankly I don't think that's correct given the explanation you gave earlier. Some responses are likely shortcut that way, the example you gave of jumping when poked for example. However, the conclusion that all decisions are purely emotional does not follow from the mere observation that the emotional path is shorter. The only indicates that you will have an instinctual answer to a question that you may or may not rationally choose to do.
You may not have an impulse control, but the rest of us do.