So maybe you are confusing Apple with Amazon. Apple doesn't 'reach out and delete apps', they simply removed them from the app store so no one else can download them.
Now Amazon, they do reach out, and delete content you have already paid for.
If you are going to throw stones, be sure you throw them at the correct target. You making shit up about a company you don't like doesn't make you insightful, it makes you dishonest.
Blizzard never purges character information, so you would only have to pay for the expansions you didn't previously pay for. And in the case of the most recent expansion, the DVD (or download) will install the client for the player based on if they 'upgraded' their account to either expansion. So, if you stopped before Burning Crusade, you would have the updated version on the lvl 1-60 game installed.
Blizzard got this part very right. Just because you leave a game, there isn't an absolute need to erase your character data in case you come back.
Another $45 to play new content for a game you already bought and pay $15 a month to play.
Hey Blizz, how about not charging for this one, say, maybe as a thank you to the suckers like me that have played for years and already bought the two previous expansions?
Hey, rather than find a way to reuse a complicated piece of tech, lets play like cavemen and come up with awesome ways to break it so no one can do anything with it.
Sure, some data is too valuable to risk, but it is 2009, you would think we would have a non-physically destructive way to securely erase data rather than a hammer.
The scope of the pure wastefulness of this is just sick. Yeah, I'm probably in a minority, but this logic is why our landfills leach out heavy metals into the water table.
Smart people can tell the voices in their head are their own thoughts, while the less intelligent think they are hearing disembodied voices, not their own?
Just because you are too 'busy' to read the contract doesn't mean you are safe to assume what that contract contained.
You should be able to assume that the state isn't watching you walk to work, or who your friends are. But, when you sit down and sign a contract, it is YOUR responsibility to make sure you know what you are signing, and if you don't agree to the letter of it, don't sign.
It is important to 'raise the alarm', but if a person can't be bothered to do their part in a contact signing, as in reading the damn thing, then they can't play victim.
While it isn't 'clear' (haha) if Clear has the legal ability to sell the info, if the clients signed a contract giving Clear the right, the clients are out of luck. Their lack of effort isn't an assault on privacy, it's a symptom of how profoundly lazy we have become.
If you sign away your privacy, then it isn't the evil corporation's fault, it is yours.
No, the jury said that the total Thomas was liable for was 80k per song. The law sets the amount per infringement and the jury, not the RIAA, set the amount awarded.
At no point did the RIAA demand a set amount, oh I'm sorry, they did, $5000 at the beginning of this mess.
Thomas did infringe on copyright, and also lied in court. The jury did the the job they were required and followed the letter of the law.
Quit bitching about the RIAA and start bitching about the Congress that wrote these amounts into law.
Off topic question. What about OSX server is causing the pain? I have been asked if it would be a reliable/easy replacement for a 50-70 user network (doing file shares/email/wiki/mobile and remote access for mostly Macs)and aside from garbage on the ol' internet, I can't find decent pros or cons from people actually using it.
I'd be happy to take it off to email otopico at that yahoo dot com
This is/. Making that much sense in one post is forbidden.
Who would think that not any one thing is perfect, but, in some cases, one thing is better than another? Madness.
OSX abandoning ZFS surely has its reasons, but it would be nice to see OSX developed in a way where the user decided which fs suited their use best and let the user decide the pro v con on one over the other.
Imagine a world where the tool was chosen by its function, not the fandom of one thing over another.
So, the employees of MS have all received increases to their wages and benefits in line with the executives and the profits of the company? So if ol' Steve gets a 15% bonus each year, the employees also get a 15% bonus?
No?
Oh yeah, some of us live in that real world place.
Microsoft doesn't want to pay their fair share, plus, you might have noticed, they have been firing OOPS! SORRY! 'laying off' thousands.
Tell me again how the profits help out the workers again....you know, the one MS fired OOPS I did it again!
Because Google just did it. Balmer got up and said if a law passes that he doesn't like, he will take his ball and go play somewhere else.
Both are ungrateful and greedy sh*ts, but one is the bad kid stealing the candy bar and not talking about it, while the other is the brat screaming about how if he doesn't get the candy bar he won't love you anymore. One is mature, the other is just a spoiled little crap that isn't smart enough to just do what they want and be brave enough to stand the heat that comes later.
Yeah it's unfashionable to reply to AC, but your point is valid and no-one will read it because it's AC.
A smart country could also legalize child slavery and provide protection for anyone that wants to rape children. After all, all one needs do i legalize it. Think of the money that could be made! If we make sure our law are as permissive and helpful for business as possible, things will just be fine!
Law to regulate business in needed because when left to their own devices, say like banks or AIG, greed will always intrude. Law is there to protect everyone, regardless of if one side thinks they are being punished. Liberty isn't freedom, why don't you idiots see that. Liberty is the freedom to have certain things be yours to decide that the government isn't allowed to touch. There is another word for that idea, regulation. Heard of it? We used to have it here. There were these regulations that set what you were allowed to do and weren't allowed to do. Funny thing is, over time, people with more money than you were able to buy special rules, just for them. The day companies are required to play by the same rules as the rest of the country, that same day America will be back in line with what our founders suffered and died to form. But I don't think the 'American' people have that much strength. No, it would cost them too much, hell, they might have to pay their taxes!
Businesses should be allowed to share in the blessing and burdens of liberty, if it isn't worth the money, let them leave. Any country that would take them in would end up regretting it when they had to start asking for the company to contribute to that country. What then, oh I know, MS moves again, to some other well meaning country that would be willing to whore itself for the change to taste the taint of our sweet love MS. At least until MS found a new victim to rape.
Microsoft can either pay their fair share or leave.
I love how the American corporations have no problem taking our money but if they are required to pay taxes, they threaten us by saying they will take jobs away from their 'fellow' Americans? Extortion is the nicest word I can think of. The word that comes up first in my mine is treasonous.
Corporate America's new slogan "America, worth f*cking!"
Fine Microsoft. Leave. Please, get the hell out. If America isn't worth paying for, then you aren't welcome.
Just another reason for people to stop using Microsoft products.
That Balmer feels comfortable saying that in public just shows how much he values his home nation. We are good enough to use, but not enough to pay for. Cheap F*ck.
And with the games so similar, content for one may very well work with the other (PC side anyway). This fulfills the blood oath some people claim to have heard for continued content plus it adds value to both games.
And honestly, if the people so upset at L4D2 are really so upset, don't buy it and shut up. Other wise it just comes across as whining.
L4D and TF2 are some of the best values I have ever seen in games. I have had both for a while, play both, and continue to enjoy them. I'm missing the root of all the outrage.
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Your sig is full of win. We need more SG1
So maybe you are confusing Apple with Amazon. Apple doesn't 'reach out and delete apps', they simply removed them from the app store so no one else can download them.
Now Amazon, they do reach out, and delete content you have already paid for.
If you are going to throw stones, be sure you throw them at the correct target. You making shit up about a company you don't like doesn't make you insightful, it makes you dishonest.
Honestly, I have been eager to get off this rock since sometime after 1991.
I'm willing and able to shake off the dust of Earth, plus, I'll even make useful and do meaningful chores for the betterment of the ol' mother Earth.
WIN
More people should understand this simple fact. Good job AC.
Blizzard never purges character information, so you would only have to pay for the expansions you didn't previously pay for. And in the case of the most recent expansion, the DVD (or download) will install the client for the player based on if they 'upgraded' their account to either expansion. So, if you stopped before Burning Crusade, you would have the updated version on the lvl 1-60 game installed.
Blizzard got this part very right. Just because you leave a game, there isn't an absolute need to erase your character data in case you come back.
Good points.
Another $45 to play new content for a game you already bought and pay $15 a month to play.
Hey Blizz, how about not charging for this one, say, maybe as a thank you to the suckers like me that have played for years and already bought the two previous expansions?
Hey, rather than find a way to reuse a complicated piece of tech, lets play like cavemen and come up with awesome ways to break it so no one can do anything with it.
Sure, some data is too valuable to risk, but it is 2009, you would think we would have a non-physically destructive way to securely erase data rather than a hammer.
The scope of the pure wastefulness of this is just sick. Yeah, I'm probably in a minority, but this logic is why our landfills leach out heavy metals into the water table.
America used to be resourceful and frugal.
Smart people can tell the voices in their head are their own thoughts, while the less intelligent think they are hearing disembodied voices, not their own?
damn it!
Just because you are too 'busy' to read the contract doesn't mean you are safe to assume what that contract contained.
You should be able to assume that the state isn't watching you walk to work, or who your friends are. But, when you sit down and sign a contract, it is YOUR responsibility to make sure you know what you are signing, and if you don't agree to the letter of it, don't sign.
It is important to 'raise the alarm', but if a person can't be bothered to do their part in a contact signing, as in reading the damn thing, then they can't play victim.
While it isn't 'clear' (haha) if Clear has the legal ability to sell the info, if the clients signed a contract giving Clear the right, the clients are out of luck. Their lack of effort isn't an assault on privacy, it's a symptom of how profoundly lazy we have become.
If you sign away your privacy, then it isn't the evil corporation's fault, it is yours.
Grow some responsibility people.
I hope the films inspire the people not already out in the streets to join the ones that are. The new revolution will be twittered.
No, the jury said that the total Thomas was liable for was 80k per song.
The law sets the amount per infringement and the jury, not the RIAA, set the amount awarded.
At no point did the RIAA demand a set amount, oh I'm sorry, they did, $5000 at the beginning of this mess.
Thomas did infringe on copyright, and also lied in court. The jury did the the job they were required and followed the letter of the law.
Quit bitching about the RIAA and start bitching about the Congress that wrote these amounts into law.
Just because a cat has kittens in an oven, you don't call the kittens biscuits
Off topic question. What about OSX server is causing the pain? I have been asked if it would be a reliable/easy replacement for a 50-70 user network (doing file shares/email/wiki/mobile and remote access for mostly Macs)and aside from garbage on the ol' internet, I can't find decent pros or cons from people actually using it.
I'd be happy to take it off to email otopico at that yahoo dot com
thanks
You sir FAIL.
This is /. Making that much sense in one post is forbidden.
Who would think that not any one thing is perfect, but, in some cases, one thing is better than another? Madness.
OSX abandoning ZFS surely has its reasons, but it would be nice to see OSX developed in a way where the user decided which fs suited their use best and let the user decide the pro v con on one over the other.
Imagine a world where the tool was chosen by its function, not the fandom of one thing over another.
So your solutions is to not tax anyone?
So, the employees of MS have all received increases to their wages and benefits in line with the executives and the profits of the company? So if ol' Steve gets a 15% bonus each year, the employees also get a 15% bonus?
No?
Oh yeah, some of us live in that real world place.
Microsoft doesn't want to pay their fair share, plus, you might have noticed, they have been firing OOPS! SORRY! 'laying off' thousands.
Tell me again how the profits help out the workers again....you know, the one MS fired OOPS I did it again!
Because Google just did it. Balmer got up and said if a law passes that he doesn't like, he will take his ball and go play somewhere else.
Both are ungrateful and greedy sh*ts, but one is the bad kid stealing the candy bar and not talking about it, while the other is the brat screaming about how if he doesn't get the candy bar he won't love you anymore. One is mature, the other is just a spoiled little crap that isn't smart enough to just do what they want and be brave enough to stand the heat that comes later.
Yeah it's unfashionable to reply to AC, but your point is valid and no-one will read it because it's AC.
A smart country could also legalize child slavery and provide protection for anyone that wants to rape children. After all, all one needs do i legalize it. Think of the money that could be made! If we make sure our law are as permissive and helpful for business as possible, things will just be fine!
Law to regulate business in needed because when left to their own devices, say like banks or AIG, greed will always intrude. Law is there to protect everyone, regardless of if one side thinks they are being punished. Liberty isn't freedom, why don't you idiots see that. Liberty is the freedom to have certain things be yours to decide that the government isn't allowed to touch. There is another word for that idea, regulation. Heard of it? We used to have it here. There were these regulations that set what you were allowed to do and weren't allowed to do. Funny thing is, over time, people with more money than you were able to buy special rules, just for them. The day companies are required to play by the same rules as the rest of the country, that same day America will be back in line with what our founders suffered and died to form. But I don't think the 'American' people have that much strength. No, it would cost them too much, hell, they might have to pay their taxes!
Businesses should be allowed to share in the blessing and burdens of liberty, if it isn't worth the money, let them leave. Any country that would take them in would end up regretting it when they had to start asking for the company to contribute to that country. What then, oh I know, MS moves again, to some other well meaning country that would be willing to whore itself for the change to taste the taint of our sweet love MS. At least until MS found a new victim to rape.
Yeah, ol' Steve is just following orders!
Microsoft can either pay their fair share or leave.
I love how the American corporations have no problem taking our money but if they are required to pay taxes, they threaten us by saying they will take jobs away from their 'fellow' Americans? Extortion is the nicest word I can think of. The word that comes up first in my mine is treasonous.
Corporate America's new slogan "America, worth f*cking!"
Fine Microsoft. Leave. Please, get the hell out. If America isn't worth paying for, then you aren't welcome.
Just another reason for people to stop using Microsoft products.
That Balmer feels comfortable saying that in public just shows how much he values his home nation. We are good enough to use, but not enough to pay for. Cheap F*ck.
Pointless Sacred 2 note -
The game has a highly editable config file. If you check out the game's forums, there are a lot of easy things you can do to 'fix' the camera.
And with the games so similar, content for one may very well work with the other (PC side anyway). This fulfills the blood oath some people claim to have heard for continued content plus it adds value to both games.
And honestly, if the people so upset at L4D2 are really so upset, don't buy it and shut up. Other wise it just comes across as whining.
L4D and TF2 are some of the best values I have ever seen in games. I have had both for a while, play both, and continue to enjoy them. I'm missing the root of all the outrage.