Instead of bitching about how the makers of the game are screwing the user over, why not opt to NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM SAID COMPANY AT ALL. The only way they'll listen is if they either lose money, or barely break even instead of making a profit. It's that goddamn simple. Crying to them about "fairness" accomplishes nothing. Hitting them with lack of funds to develop the game says a lot more.
Go ahead and call wikipedia a conspiracy loon site as well. Your misguided opinion doesn't change the fact that ACTA does indeed exist *AND* makes SOPA/PIPA look like a game of candyland. This information is freely available through any major search engine; You just have to know what to look for, when, and where to look for it.
It won't really matter where the servers are in a particular jurisdiction, if your country has signed the Anti-Counterfitting Trade Act, you're pretty much screwed. So much for turning fear and uncertainty into an economic boon.
"My experience: I can't load Yahoo Mail for any length of time in Firefox without it turning to mush. If I leave Firefox open for a couple of days with mostly static tabs, twitter excepting, and make the mistake of using other applications, it'll turn to mush.
And by mush I mean swap hell when you try to scroll a web page, that kind of thing.
This isn't just happening on my 1.5Gb VM at work or 1Gb Netbook, it's happening on my 8Gb freshly installed no-profile-other-than-that-produced-by-Firefox-sync no-extensions-even-AdBlock Ubuntu machine."
Sweet jesus, man, he just gave you a description right there. Although I'm not on the FF dev team, that sounds like a damn memory leak to me.
I see a lot of assmad in this alleged "indictment". $675 Million is nearly the equivalent of what Kung Fu Panda 2 made worldwide. The "loss" might seem like a significant number, but it's actually chump change compared to overall worldwide gross sales of all other files combined from 2011. This is only a PR stunt. There's nothing to see here, move along.
I just call it how I see it. Massive downmodding usually means seething, vitriolic rage from basement dwelling nerds who wouldn't know any better otherwise. Oh well, that's/. for ya. Inb4 "I'm gonna cast magic missile".
Dude, the article's not even a page long, and you seem to assume that I've never heard of UEFI, Windows 8, or a mobile device. Why not just make a coherent argument in the first place, instead of making groundless supposition?
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You can't just go about doing that, you silly knave! There are policies! PROCEDURES! INSTITUTIONS!
Instead of bitching about how the makers of the game are screwing the user over, why not opt to NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM SAID COMPANY AT ALL . The only way they'll listen is if they either lose money, or barely break even instead of making a profit. It's that goddamn simple. Crying to them about "fairness" accomplishes nothing. Hitting them with lack of funds to develop the game says a lot more.
Yeah, I'm just making that up.
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/29/1925202/thousands-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-acta
I vow only to post REAL news stories from now on *eyeroll*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
Go ahead and call wikipedia a conspiracy loon site as well. Your misguided opinion doesn't change the fact that ACTA does indeed exist *AND* makes SOPA/PIPA look like a game of candyland. This information is freely available through any major search engine; You just have to know what to look for, when, and where to look for it.
I highly doubt the above statement, given this...
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-signs-global-internet-treaty-worse-than-sopa.html
It won't really matter where the servers are in a particular jurisdiction, if your country has signed the Anti-Counterfitting Trade Act, you're pretty much screwed. So much for turning fear and uncertainty into an economic boon.
"My experience: I can't load Yahoo Mail for any length of time in Firefox without it turning to mush. If I leave Firefox open for a couple of days with mostly static tabs, twitter excepting, and make the mistake of using other applications, it'll turn to mush.
And by mush I mean swap hell when you try to scroll a web page, that kind of thing.
This isn't just happening on my 1.5Gb VM at work or 1Gb Netbook, it's happening on my 8Gb freshly installed no-profile-other-than-that-produced-by-Firefox-sync no-extensions-even-AdBlock Ubuntu machine."
Sweet jesus, man, he just gave you a description right there. Although I'm not on the FF dev team, that sounds like a damn memory leak to me.
And now they're going to pass the savings onto *YOU*!
Not sure about you, but to me, the off-crimson hue of the "mud" seems to more than suggest blood is present.
Not if the venusian scorpions have anything to say about it.
Earth deluged by fire... mayan calendar... panemonium ensues... satellite communication goes down for about a week. Nothing to really panic about.
SHHH! Don't tell him our secrets!
I see a lot of assmad in this alleged "indictment". $675 Million is nearly the equivalent of what Kung Fu Panda 2 made worldwide. The "loss" might seem like a significant number, but it's actually chump change compared to overall worldwide gross sales of all other files combined from 2011. This is only a PR stunt. There's nothing to see here, move along.
http://www.worldwideboxoffice.com/index.cgi?order=worldwide&start=2011&finish=2012&keyword=
Really? I should have realized you were a troll right off the break.
Then bring that up with the incompetents that don't know how to implement it. I'm just pointing out the obvious.
Like the fact it still isn't implemented almost 12 years after the original announcement?
... We'll be building these houses on the moon.
I don't see why they're building such a telescope, because where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
Thanks for the laugh, found some real gems with that one.
Yes, but we're still having trouble implementing IPv6. That's the difference.
https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=ipv6+bugs&psj=1&oq=ipv6+bugs&aq=f&aqi=g-v2&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1618l3509l0l4620l9l8l0l1l1l0l193l905l2.5l7l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=ca580344a845b035&biw=1024&bih=679 Over 19.5 million pages for "ipv6 bugs" just from a simple Google search. Well played, sir. Well played indeed.
Have they finally worked out the bugs? If they have, perhaps this time with be "fo 'realiez yo!", instead of "jk" like the last 8 times.
That beer is the nectar of The Gods.
I just call it how I see it. Massive downmodding usually means seething, vitriolic rage from basement dwelling nerds who wouldn't know any better otherwise. Oh well, that's /. for ya. Inb4 "I'm gonna cast magic missile".
I don't run windows 7, so in all honesty, IDGAF.
Dude, the article's not even a page long, and you seem to assume that I've never heard of UEFI, Windows 8, or a mobile device. Why not just make a coherent argument in the first place, instead of making groundless supposition?