Unregulated capitalism China is DEFINITELY NOT. Just go read about what happened to the guy who shipped lead-painted toys to the U.S. He was not asked to resign.
"Nazi" is slang for "National Socialist Party". Socialism is a lot of things, including tyrannical rulers. The U.S. is not a Democracy, either, it is a Republic.
One simple solution might be to remove the regulations that keep cable users tied to a small handful of companies. If companies like Comcast had to deal with real competition, they might be a little less dickweed.
Of course, that is exactly why they are so afraid of internet streaming. When all I need is for Comcast to provide the bandwidth, their control and revenue vanish.
No reason for me to say what I was going to. Very true. Distros like Ubuntu have made Linux far easier to use, but I still had to manually edit xorg.conf to get my mouse to work properly, and although Synaptic works really well, I still find myself using the Terminal quite often. If there is a way to run a program as root through the GUI, I still haven't found it.
Then there is the problem with open source software itself. Its great, I love it, but its up to you to find the answers to problems. Have a problem with Ubuntu? They recommend the forums. Its 2012, people, the average internet user probably hasn't posted on a forum in almost 10 years.
Not socialism? I think you meant it was not "communism". The USSR was definitely socialist (centrally controlled bank, centrally planned economy, government owns everything, no free enterprise...). It was definitely not communist, as that requires an eventual dismantling of the government. Socialism fails because you can't plan an economy with much precision. The USSR demonstrated this quite well, and China had horrible sanitation and humanitarian problems before it adopted capitalism, too. Not to mention a lot more starving people.
This is because agricultural productivity was so much lower in the past. It's not that food is artificially cheap today – it's that food is much cheaper and easier to produce now due to advances in technology.
Wow, guys, Linux finally gets a major games publisher serious about it and all you can do is worry about DRM? The world is not going open source anytime soon. One thing at a time.
You're not kidding. Slackware 9 was my introduction to Linux, and after accidentally deleting my Windows partition, it was all I had. It took 2 weeks just to figure out how to configure my DSL connection. Two of the best weeks I ever had, I might add.
I think it is important to remember in all this that, much as they have gone about it the wrong way, the IP holders really do have a legitimate beef. Piracy is a crime and *can* damage their business models. They have a right to protect that. They don't have a right to violate our rights in the process, which is where I protest horrendous crap like SOPA and PIPA.
You will never get rid of murderers, either. Or thieves or rapists. That doesn't mean we shouldn't prosecute them, but we have to respect their rights in the process. Same standard should go to fighting piracy.
I agree. I'm so sick of local newspapers with headlines like "Ragsdale Tigers win again!". Why can't we see "Ragsdale high school ranked 5th in the state in math scores!" It sounds lame, but the focus of public schools should be education, not sports. If the city wants to fund local sports leagues, fine, but funding for schools should go towards training people in skills that are actually beneficial to society.
This is where the lack of third-party server support in most modern games really hurts the genre. Back in CS 1.5-1.6 days, yeah, most public servers were full of idiots and not fun. But if you searched long enough, you could eventually find that one server (usually a clan server) that was frequented by at least a small group of serious players and run by admins who had no qualms about banning players for the slightest reason, which would improve the experience immensely. This company-run servers only practice in recent years may have made multiplayer more consistent, but its killed the spirit of online shooters for me.
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Unregulated capitalism China is DEFINITELY NOT. Just go read about what happened to the guy who shipped lead-painted toys to the U.S. He was not asked to resign.
"Nazi" is slang for "National Socialist Party". Socialism is a lot of things, including tyrannical rulers. The U.S. is not a Democracy, either, it is a Republic.
One simple solution might be to remove the regulations that keep cable users tied to a small handful of companies. If companies like Comcast had to deal with real competition, they might be a little less dickweed. Of course, that is exactly why they are so afraid of internet streaming. When all I need is for Comcast to provide the bandwidth, their control and revenue vanish.
Remember the 5th of November.
No reason for me to say what I was going to. Very true. Distros like Ubuntu have made Linux far easier to use, but I still had to manually edit xorg.conf to get my mouse to work properly, and although Synaptic works really well, I still find myself using the Terminal quite often. If there is a way to run a program as root through the GUI, I still haven't found it. Then there is the problem with open source software itself. Its great, I love it, but its up to you to find the answers to problems. Have a problem with Ubuntu? They recommend the forums. Its 2012, people, the average internet user probably hasn't posted on a forum in almost 10 years.
Not socialism? I think you meant it was not "communism". The USSR was definitely socialist (centrally controlled bank, centrally planned economy, government owns everything, no free enterprise...). It was definitely not communist, as that requires an eventual dismantling of the government. Socialism fails because you can't plan an economy with much precision. The USSR demonstrated this quite well, and China had horrible sanitation and humanitarian problems before it adopted capitalism, too. Not to mention a lot more starving people.
This is because agricultural productivity was so much lower in the past. It's not that food is artificially cheap today – it's that food is much cheaper and easier to produce now due to advances in technology.
It's both, actually.
Wow, guys, Linux finally gets a major games publisher serious about it and all you can do is worry about DRM? The world is not going open source anytime soon. One thing at a time.
You're not kidding. Slackware 9 was my introduction to Linux, and after accidentally deleting my Windows partition, it was all I had. It took 2 weeks just to figure out how to configure my DSL connection. Two of the best weeks I ever had, I might add.
I think it is important to remember in all this that, much as they have gone about it the wrong way, the IP holders really do have a legitimate beef. Piracy is a crime and *can* damage their business models. They have a right to protect that. They don't have a right to violate our rights in the process, which is where I protest horrendous crap like SOPA and PIPA. You will never get rid of murderers, either. Or thieves or rapists. That doesn't mean we shouldn't prosecute them, but we have to respect their rights in the process. Same standard should go to fighting piracy.
I agree. I'm so sick of local newspapers with headlines like "Ragsdale Tigers win again!". Why can't we see "Ragsdale high school ranked 5th in the state in math scores!" It sounds lame, but the focus of public schools should be education, not sports. If the city wants to fund local sports leagues, fine, but funding for schools should go towards training people in skills that are actually beneficial to society.
This is where the lack of third-party server support in most modern games really hurts the genre. Back in CS 1.5-1.6 days, yeah, most public servers were full of idiots and not fun. But if you searched long enough, you could eventually find that one server (usually a clan server) that was frequented by at least a small group of serious players and run by admins who had no qualms about banning players for the slightest reason, which would improve the experience immensely. This company-run servers only practice in recent years may have made multiplayer more consistent, but its killed the spirit of online shooters for me.
Try hitting Cntrl+C or Cntrl+V in a windows command line and see how far you get.