I just picked up Civilization 4 Complete -- DRM free. The initial release of Civ4 had securom. The Complete set also includes the 2 exansions and Colonization. I was glad to purchase this one.
I think his review is brilliant, both delivery and content. Even the editing is funny. Haven't laughed so hard in a long time... His Star Trek movie reviews are great too.
Speaking of landscape destruction... Have you ever driven the interstate through Palm Springs, CA? It is just like driving through an industrial wasteland.
Wind power stations uglify the landscape very effectively. They should be in the middle of nowhere.
The shooter's manifesto also claimed that he did not wish anyone to be blamed for his own actions. It seems he saw the media reaction coming. Don't they all? These killers know they will get frontpage media coverage. Everyone will learn their grievances. They'll get magazine covers. Everyone will know their names.
This guys website directory linked above looks almost like a press-kit!
Bigots and the like may be arrested for other things, but there are no laws to outlaw "hate speech". All opinions, no matter how outrageous, are protected under the first amendment. There exists illegal speech such as child porn, credible threats of violence, etc. which can be dealt with by law enforcement. But the US has no national firewall like, say Germany. People there are literally cut off from "hate speech" at the network level.
I am not familiar with this EU law details but to fight against restricting speech is certainly a worthy fight, especially at the network level.
I will slide right by your insults and elaborate on my point which you completely missed:
Copyright rewards creators. Creators who make games, movies, music, porn, books, paintings, code, etc. Creators are free to give away their work. They may also ask for compensation.
Under your "Dare to Dream" scenario digital information has no value. Jobs and supporting industries disappear. Only the most popular creators can survive on tips (if the original creator can even be identified amongst imposters). The rest are forced to find jobs in service or physical goods. Massive creative energy is lost.
Non-linear online content (like WoW) is the only thing that retains any economic value. Crushing DRM is implemented to keep these online communities exclusive.
Battlestar Gallactica goes off the air. What will be left for the freeloaders to download? The current ratio of pirated vs. non-pirated content on big trackers is what -- 100 to 1?
And that is the thing about freeloaders. They will complain about Britney Spears and moan how Hollywood is ruining all that is good and holy. But they are not downloading stuff they hate. Or amatuer stuff. They are downloading content they enjoy and stiffing the creators.
breaking copyright IS WRONG. in law, and ethically. comparing ripping off music to fighting slavery is ABSURD. what sad little freeloaders you ilk are.
if we could duplicate physical objects (like food and shelter) as easily and cheaply as digital information then you may have point here, but until that age comes, asking for compensation of created data should be awarded. and there is NOTHING UNJUST ABOUT IT.
how about ZERO EXCEPTIONS for any and every opinion? if you are making a Bill of Rights, do it right.
why should "hate speech", a nebulous idea that any government could redefine, be excepted? nasty opinions are just that. threats of violence are NOT opinions.
They are talking margins for retailers, not labels. CD wholesale costs were always higher than tapes or vinyl. When I worked a music shop, CDs brought in a couple bucks for the latest hit albums. The owner made his real money on tshirts, bongs, stickers, posters, etc.
So I can see how a $7 single might make big retailers take notice if wholesale is low.
I am in the middle of reading LOTR again, and I am noticing a LOT of crying. Just about everybody cries. On every page.
"Taters!" cried Sam.
"Where?" cried Frodo.
"Gollum!" cried Gollum.
Also the characters are quite flat, making pronouncements rather than having conversations. Tolkien also shows more love for hills than females, with dells, glens, valleys, vales, and sundry other gaps between earth comprising 50% of the book. Apart from Eowyn there are only the token dolls of Galadriel and Goldberry. Why couldn't Merry and Legolas been chicks?
Exactly. these dowloaders may not be technically "thieves" but they are definitely asshole freeloaders. and the proprietors of thepiratebay make money entirely off the backs of others peoples work. they justify their unethical nature by complaining about britney spears and hollywood and how this small clique of rich people control everything. of course they aren't ripping of britney spears, they're ripping off the things they enjoy.
it is important to fight DRM, but these jerks definitely make that fight harder as the line between freeloaders and we who fight user-hostile technology is blurred.
We already have socialized healthcare in the form of Medicare and Medicaid, the US Dept of HealthHS spent over $600 billion last year, larger than the military spending in fact. With the debt approaching 9 trillion, and continuous budget deficits how can we even afford this?
I have been running the same setup for 3 months now, and would not use the word "reliable" in a review. Initially I wanted to try Beryl, but after relentless freezes and fuckups I reinstalled Ubuntu with plain old X. But a default install still gives me headaches:
1. firexfox will randomly freeze, often on youtube, but elsewhere as well (Force Quit) 2. after playing a few videos, vlc will start stuttering and dropping frames, requires a ctrl-alt-bs to fix 3. random drops off wifi, can only reconnect after reboot 4. still can't play DVDs (a general disto fault, but not a simple install)
Now, granted, my vid card is an ATI x1400 but come on, are the drivers that bad?! I would go back to dual-boot WinXP Pro if I hadn't wiped the service partition.
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TRS-80 was 1977, along with Apple II and the Commodore PET. Your units shipped is quoted too high but I'll let it slide...
I just picked up Civilization 4 Complete -- DRM free. The initial release of Civ4 had securom. The Complete set also includes the 2 exansions and Colonization. I was glad to purchase this one.
Wow. I still haven't picked up the first BioShock because of the DRM.
2k released a Civ 4 bundle with NO DRM. Maybe they'll come around in a few years.
I think his review is brilliant, both delivery and content. Even the editing is funny. Haven't laughed so hard in a long time... His Star Trek movie reviews are great too.
What's wrong with your face?!?
my number one stop on the net, every day for the last 12 years.
Keep it Up!
Yes, iPhone has Exchange push. Schiller made a big deal of it in the presentation.
If it wasn't for NCSA and Mosaic the web would have died.
Who are the final five dinosaurs?
Speaking of landscape destruction... Have you ever driven the interstate through Palm Springs, CA? It is just like driving through an industrial wasteland.
Wind power stations uglify the landscape very effectively. They should be in the middle of nowhere.
Here's a good link that thoroughly debunks the "wiped off the map" myth:
http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/rumor-of-the-century/
This guys website directory linked above looks almost like a press-kit!
Tim Berners-Lee is pro net neutrality! In his own words:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2732548432852483380
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Censorship/Internet%20Censorship%20Report.htm#GERMANY
The banning of international sites in Germany generally ended around the year 2000, but it seems to crop up there still.
Bigots and the like may be arrested for other things, but there are no laws to outlaw "hate speech". All opinions, no matter how outrageous, are protected under the first amendment. There exists illegal speech such as child porn, credible threats of violence, etc. which can be dealt with by law enforcement. But the US has no national firewall like, say Germany. People there are literally cut off from "hate speech" at the network level.
I am not familiar with this EU law details but to fight against restricting speech is certainly a worthy fight, especially at the network level.
200 comments and every other post claims the premise is a rip off of an existing story/series.
even if true, Joss will make it work!
I will slide right by your insults and elaborate on my point which you completely missed:
Copyright rewards creators. Creators who make games, movies, music, porn, books, paintings, code, etc. Creators are free to give away their work. They may also ask for compensation.
Under your "Dare to Dream" scenario digital information has no value. Jobs and supporting industries disappear. Only the most popular creators can survive on tips (if the original creator can even be identified amongst imposters). The rest are forced to find jobs in service or physical goods. Massive creative energy is lost.
Non-linear online content (like WoW) is the only thing that retains any economic value. Crushing DRM is implemented to keep these online communities exclusive.
Battlestar Gallactica goes off the air. What will be left for the freeloaders to download? The current ratio of pirated vs. non-pirated content on big trackers is what -- 100 to 1?
And that is the thing about freeloaders. They will complain about Britney Spears and moan how Hollywood is ruining all that is good and holy. But they are not downloading stuff they hate. Or amatuer stuff. They are downloading content they enjoy and stiffing the creators.
breaking copyright IS WRONG. in law, and ethically. comparing ripping off music to fighting slavery is ABSURD. what sad little freeloaders you ilk are.
if we could duplicate physical objects (like food and shelter) as easily and cheaply as digital information then you may have point here, but until that age comes, asking for compensation of created data should be awarded. and there is NOTHING UNJUST ABOUT IT.
how about ZERO EXCEPTIONS for any and every opinion? if you are making a Bill of Rights, do it right.
why should "hate speech", a nebulous idea that any government could redefine, be excepted? nasty opinions are just that. threats of violence are NOT opinions.
They are talking margins for retailers, not labels. CD wholesale costs were always higher than tapes or vinyl. When I worked a music shop, CDs brought in a couple bucks for the latest hit albums. The owner made his real money on tshirts, bongs, stickers, posters, etc.
So I can see how a $7 single might make big retailers take notice if wholesale is low.
I don't understand that MiB thing either, as MB suffices for both megabyte and mebibyte.
I am in the middle of reading LOTR again, and I am noticing a LOT of crying. Just about everybody cries. On every page.
"Taters!" cried Sam.
"Where?" cried Frodo.
"Gollum!" cried Gollum.
Also the characters are quite flat, making pronouncements rather than having conversations. Tolkien also shows more love for hills than females, with dells, glens, valleys, vales, and sundry other gaps between earth comprising 50% of the book. Apart from Eowyn there are only the token dolls of Galadriel and Goldberry. Why couldn't Merry and Legolas been chicks?
Exactly. these dowloaders may not be technically "thieves" but they are definitely asshole freeloaders. and the proprietors of thepiratebay make money entirely off the backs of others peoples work. they justify their unethical nature by complaining about britney spears and hollywood and how this small clique of rich people control everything. of course they aren't ripping of britney spears, they're ripping off the things they enjoy.
it is important to fight DRM, but these jerks definitely make that fight harder as the line between freeloaders and we who fight user-hostile technology is blurred.
We already have socialized healthcare in the form of Medicare and Medicaid, the US Dept of HealthHS spent over $600 billion last year, larger than the military spending in fact. With the debt approaching 9 trillion, and continuous budget deficits how can we even afford this?
"I want to be on the content creators side and support the people who entertain me"
"so I get most of my CD's used for a couple of bucks"
?
I have been running the same setup for 3 months now, and would not use the word "reliable" in a review. Initially I wanted to try Beryl, but after relentless freezes and fuckups I reinstalled Ubuntu with plain old X. But a default install still gives me headaches:
1. firexfox will randomly freeze, often on youtube, but elsewhere as well (Force Quit)
2. after playing a few videos, vlc will start stuttering and dropping frames, requires a ctrl-alt-bs to fix
3. random drops off wifi, can only reconnect after reboot
4. still can't play DVDs (a general disto fault, but not a simple install)
Now, granted, my vid card is an ATI x1400 but come on, are the drivers that bad?! I would go back to dual-boot WinXP Pro if I hadn't wiped the service partition.