Be quiet! Companies are evil! This is yet another example of "corporate ineptitude" for all the enlightened Slashdotters to shake their heads over. Didn't you read the summary? Stop thinking!
I have a question. Why does Slashdot constantly side with PirateBay? You are aware that they were running a major piracy ring, right? That they were providing the torrent trackers that facilitated the distribution of copyrighted materials?
Don't you guys ever wonder why big-name developers like John Carmack don't post here anymore? Slashdot has adopted a position that it is completely okay to rip people off and never pay them for their work. The site mindlessly posts two or three pro-piracy articles per day to appease the masses, who will subsequently drive up ad revenues by clicking and posting about how evil they think capitalism is.
All of this is amusing considering Slashdot has threatened websites in the past for posting Slashdot's stories--due to copyright infringement. And Slashdotters love to make a big deal when a company "steals" GPL code. Apparently, piracy isn't theft and copyrights don't matter except when it benefits you.
"RIAA victim?" Give me a break. How do you people stand Slashdot anymore and it's completely biased headlines?
Remember when this site posted technical news having to do with science and programming? Now, it's five pro-piracy articles every day with stupid tags like "mafiaa."
Fucking hell, enough with the piracy articles on Slashdot. It's what, two or three a day now? I know Slashdot is a pro-piracy haven where the existence of the RIAA somehow justifies you pirating somebody's work, but don't you get tired of discussing the same thing over and over?
Don't you guys get tired of being a stereotype? We get it--you don't believe piracy is bad, and any group that speaks out against piracy is wrong. You don't care about artist rights, blah blah blah. Do we really need a "piracy is great" rallying article every single day?
"It's become customary to expect a somewhat limited perspective on things from old-world entertainment companies, but his inability to acknowledge that the Internet has changed everything makes me think he's a very confused man."
What did he say that was incorrect? What he said--that people have gotten accustomed to wanting shit for free without paying the artist--is 100% true. Slashdotters in particular have become almost militantly pro-piracy and use every opportunity to defend piracy and violating artist rights by distracting the argument with invented bad guys such as the RIAA and MPAA.
What a totally unbiased article summary. It doesn't automatically take a position or make assumptions about anything. I expect a fully qualified, objective discussion to follow presenting both sides in a fair and factually-based light.
Sorry, submitter, but Slashdotters believe absolutely everything that they didn't make should be made available to them for free. If anyone makes them feel guilty about it in any way, they'll invent bad guys to make themselves feel like good guys, such as the MPAA or RIAA. "The RIAA made me do it!" You may as well accept that the leeches of society are going to pirate your book and think nothing of it, because that's the kind of personality that the internet breeds. Just read Slashdot comments for a sampling.
despite public knowledge that it's rather trivial to launch exploits against the Mac.
It's not public knowledge, and the only exploit going around recently was one you had to download in a pirated application. Nice little troll slip in the summary there.
My biggest problem with this upgrade is that it seems more like a Windows Service Pack than a true Mac OS X upgrade. Are we going to have to pay for "new APIs" and "multi-core processing"?
To be honest, we don't know everything that's going to be included in Snow Leopard. As for being like a service pack, Apple said this is what Snow Leopard was going to be. They're improving on the foundations to better support their future platforms, such as introducing a new version of Quicktime that's more efficient to help with battery life.
Besides, DOSBox now has a multitude of frontends (http://frontends.dosbox.com/) available.
And all of them suck. DOSBox joins the long list of Linux-centric software that actually expects you to stop the application and edit a long text file just to change basic options.
How many times do people have to lose their CDs and rebuy them before they realize physical formats are an obsolete medium?
If you email Valve about your scenario (you don't answer your own question to let us know just how many times that's actually happened), they'll tell you that in the rare case they ever went away along with Steam, they would disable the DRM authentication in games so there wouldn't be a problem.
This isn't "gameplay footage." It's an animator's demo reel. Look at the comments from people who are saying they're disappointed, as if this was supposed to be a clip of the actual game. They are all misinformed.
It's interesting to see the pirates on Slashdot gnashing their teeth that a torrent site is filtering out copyrighted materials. According to most of you, torrents were always used for good, to distribute Linux distros and such, so what's the problem?
Oh, wait, you were lying because you didn't want to lose the free ride.
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Be quiet! Companies are evil! This is yet another example of "corporate ineptitude" for all the enlightened Slashdotters to shake their heads over. Didn't you read the summary? Stop thinking!
I have a question. Why does Slashdot constantly side with PirateBay? You are aware that they were running a major piracy ring, right? That they were providing the torrent trackers that facilitated the distribution of copyrighted materials?
Don't you guys ever wonder why big-name developers like John Carmack don't post here anymore? Slashdot has adopted a position that it is completely okay to rip people off and never pay them for their work. The site mindlessly posts two or three pro-piracy articles per day to appease the masses, who will subsequently drive up ad revenues by clicking and posting about how evil they think capitalism is.
All of this is amusing considering Slashdot has threatened websites in the past for posting Slashdot's stories--due to copyright infringement. And Slashdotters love to make a big deal when a company "steals" GPL code. Apparently, piracy isn't theft and copyrights don't matter except when it benefits you.
"RIAA victim?" Give me a break. How do you people stand Slashdot anymore and it's completely biased headlines?
Remember when this site posted technical news having to do with science and programming? Now, it's five pro-piracy articles every day with stupid tags like "mafiaa."
Fucking hell, enough with the piracy articles on Slashdot. It's what, two or three a day now? I know Slashdot is a pro-piracy haven where the existence of the RIAA somehow justifies you pirating somebody's work, but don't you get tired of discussing the same thing over and over?
If only it didn't take 30 seconds to launch up and gobble all your gigabytes of RAM.
Don't you guys get tired of being a stereotype? We get it--you don't believe piracy is bad, and any group that speaks out against piracy is wrong. You don't care about artist rights, blah blah blah. Do we really need a "piracy is great" rallying article every single day?
I don't think Apple is interested in the netbook market because they consider the iPhone to be their portable computer.
From the summary:
"It's become customary to expect a somewhat limited perspective on things from old-world entertainment companies, but his inability to acknowledge that the Internet has changed everything makes me think he's a very confused man."
What did he say that was incorrect? What he said--that people have gotten accustomed to wanting shit for free without paying the artist--is 100% true. Slashdotters in particular have become almost militantly pro-piracy and use every opportunity to defend piracy and violating artist rights by distracting the argument with invented bad guys such as the RIAA and MPAA.
Rainbows and ponies, glued together with hope! Vote Obama '08!
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What a totally unbiased article summary. It doesn't automatically take a position or make assumptions about anything. I expect a fully qualified, objective discussion to follow presenting both sides in a fair and factually-based light.
Sorry, submitter, but Slashdotters believe absolutely everything that they didn't make should be made available to them for free. If anyone makes them feel guilty about it in any way, they'll invent bad guys to make themselves feel like good guys, such as the MPAA or RIAA. "The RIAA made me do it!" You may as well accept that the leeches of society are going to pirate your book and think nothing of it, because that's the kind of personality that the internet breeds. Just read Slashdot comments for a sampling.
It's not public knowledge, and the only exploit going around recently was one you had to download in a pirated application. Nice little troll slip in the summary there.
What is "OS/X?" Did you mean Mac OS X? Why did you insert a slash?
To be honest, we don't know everything that's going to be included in Snow Leopard. As for being like a service pack, Apple said this is what Snow Leopard was going to be. They're improving on the foundations to better support their future platforms, such as introducing a new version of Quicktime that's more efficient to help with battery life.
Dear idiot,
Square-Enix owns the trademark. If they don't defend it, they lose it. You can't just start letting other people make sequels to your franchise.
The story summary is biased, misinformed, and stupid, as are most of the comments.
DOSBox is for games. If a company needs to run DOS applications with printing support, they should be running a virtual machine like VMWare.
And all of them suck. DOSBox joins the long list of Linux-centric software that actually expects you to stop the application and edit a long text file just to change basic options.
That's like worrying that a plane will accidentally drop a mattress on your head. You can worry about anything.
I love how open Slashdotters are about their piracy. Nobody even tries to be subtle about it anymore.
I think if you're wanting general DOS application support, you'd use something like VMWare.
How many times do people have to lose their CDs and rebuy them before they realize physical formats are an obsolete medium?
If you email Valve about your scenario (you don't answer your own question to let us know just how many times that's actually happened), they'll tell you that in the rare case they ever went away along with Steam, they would disable the DRM authentication in games so there wouldn't be a problem.
Awesome! You're ripping people off with style!
Dear Slashdot,
This isn't "gameplay footage." It's an animator's demo reel. Look at the comments from people who are saying they're disappointed, as if this was supposed to be a clip of the actual game. They are all misinformed.
Screw the MPAA! I have ideals!
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OMG Star Trek movie!
It's interesting to see the pirates on Slashdot gnashing their teeth that a torrent site is filtering out copyrighted materials. According to most of you, torrents were always used for good, to distribute Linux distros and such, so what's the problem?
Oh, wait, you were lying because you didn't want to lose the free ride.