I was going to do a point-by-point rebuttal of that shitty misrepresentation of my posting history. But I realized it was all redundant. Everything comes back to this point.
1. his worst-case-scenario form of "advocacy" is a blight on this forum
TRUTH. I'm through trying to be nice, or polite, or rational in an attempt to counterbalance your insanity. There's a reason some AC continued to post excerpts from the Linux Advocacy HOWTO after I first replied to you with it: Because you have no fucking clue what it says, nor do you care. You don't care how much of an asshole you are, or how poorly you reflect on this forum, or how poorly you reflect on Linux, the operating system you worship.
You hate Microsoft so much, you'll stoop to anything -- lies, slander, defamation -- to respond to any post that even slightly implies any form of sympathy for your devil.
Was there anything really different or insightful in any of that, or are you trying to set a new record for "Number of words wasted to say 'Windoze is teh suXX0r!!11'"? Same shit, different CID.
Because he's the President of the United States of America. Ridicule comes with the office. Eight years ago, you couldn't escape jokes about stained dresses. Sixteen years ago, every GHWB reference ended with "Wouldn't be prudent. Not at this juncture." It's a time-honoured tradition.
DAOC claimed that 'no this won't affect DAOC, Warhammer Online has whole different dev team on another floor of the same building'. While this may be mostly true, any real dev investment to DAOC went downhill fast after that.
But the Warhammer team was spending DAOC's money. Marvel Universe has two very wealthy sugar daddies.
Cryptic was a one-game shop before Marvel Universe. Auto Assault is from another studio entirely, yet their failure hit their common publisher, NCSoft, hard enough to impact Cryptic's bottom line. Given that, I seriously doubt that Cryptic would have enough capital to launch another project on their own. They're making enough to continue to reinvest in the Cities, but no more. Otherwise, they'd already be in a state of decay. Remember, Marvel sought out Microsoft, Microsoft sought out Cryptic.
Besides, if Cities players caught the slightest hint that they were being pushed aside for Marvel Ultimate, the Cities would be stone dead before Marvel Ultimate reached their first closed beta. The Cities have, IMHO, the best dev/community relationship in the business. When NCSoft's top liason left the Cities to start up Tabula Rasa's community team, Cryptic and W00t Radio held a huge going away party on the test server. By the time I logged on, there were 7 Pocket D instances. Could you imagine that happening in SWG or WoW?
If Cryptic started neglecting the Cities, the sense of betrayal would be orders of magnitude worse than any of the core rules tomfoolery inflicted on SWG players. Don't think Statesman and Positron don't know that.
Just look at DAOC after Warhammer Online was announced.
Well, this isn't quite the same thing. With DAOC and Warhammer, that was pretty much the same team moving on to the next big thing on their own.
One thing Positron said in his letter to The Cities community was that the Cities and Marvel Universe will have totally separate dev teams. And with the kinds of cash Marvel and Microsoft can throw at Marvel Universe, Cryptic wouldn't have to siphon any money from the Cities' team. In fact, I doubt Jack Emmert would agree to this deal if he didn't think the Cities would be self-sustaining throughout the process.
IMHO, keeping the teams separate is almost a necessity. Neither team will want new features to be dependent on the other. Certainly, there will be a new client engine, since the Cities are OpenGL. Marvel Universe will run on both Windows and XBox 360, so Direct3D would be an engineering no-brainer even if Microsoft wasn't publishing the title. And, if nothing else, the inevitable rivalry between the Cities and Marvel Universe will push both teams to prove their own worth. Marvel Universe doesn't want to be seen as a mere "re-skin" of City of Heroes, with Jean Gray and Xavier's School standing where Ms. Liberty and City Hall used to be, and the Cities don't want to be reduced to one large beta test for Marvel.
Twit logic at its bitter, twisted finest. cPanel is mostly perl scripts running on Linux. But perl is Free, so it is perfect and must be absolved of all wrongdoing. And Linux is Free, so it too is perfect and must be absolved of all wrongdoing. But wait! The HTML injected through the cPanel exploit is itself an IE exploit!
It all makes sense now! If Microsoft didn't build such shitty software, nobody would have ever been LOOKING for an exploit in cPanel in the first place. So it's all Microsoft's fault, and cPanel is off the hook entirely! Right?
</sarcasm>
A moment of providence: Part of the scripture readings at church this morning was James 3:13-18.
I do have that kind of time. If you don't, it might have something to do with your choice of software.
Come on, twit. Take the broader view. Do you really think anybody is truly reducing the complexity of modern software? Or are we all just pushing it around, hiding it in different corners and under different rugs? And if there was a silver bullet out there, wouldn't we all be using it by now?
You can keep thumping your copy of The Cathedral and The Bazzar as if it were a Bible all you like. But until you can prove your product is not just different, but better in ways that matter to your audience and not just you, you're only advocating change for change's sake. People have better things to do with their time.
MiniStore only reports an identifier for what's selected and/or playing at the time. It doesn't transmit statistics like play count or last played date. According to Apple, that ID is only used to determine what similar tracks to display in the MiniStore view, and is then discarded.
For the record, MiniStore was opt-out when it was introduced in 6.0.2, but was changed to opt-in in 6.0.3, and has been opt-in ever since.
5. Sweeten the DRM deal. Give away everything RIAA under subscription as long as the user agrees to the terms. The terms are no-circumvention, period. Joe Sixpacks happily adds another $20/month to the cable bill and drowns in crappy music.
All-you-can-eat subscription plans are failing. Napster has to give away DAPs and attach subscription fees to college students' tuitions to puff up their numbers, and those students aren't falling for it. Pay-per-track stores like iTunes and Urge succeed because the "buy once, play forever" model appeals to customers' sense of permanence. (Well, as permanent as their backups, of course.) Oh, and don't think I didn't notice the little elitist sneer about popular music at the end.
6. Insist that all recording devices be corrupted by DRM to make "professional" recording equipment as expensive enough to eliminate most recording studios. See $27,000 DVD jukebox as a glaring example. This will take years.
This may be the next battleground, actually. You'll have plenty of artists who don't want the hassle of protected media when they want or need to change studios, equipment, or techniques. At the same time, though, there have been plenty of leaked albums over the years that have other artists hopping mad enough to want their unfinished works under lock and key. I think this one will end up on the side of first principles: physical security. Don't encrypt the media, but don't let Skippy The Intern have access to the workstation, either.
7. Use Palladium to keep any "untrusted" software from running on new hardware.
Microsoft has gotten pushback from too many directions and too many allies to get very far with Palladium. Besides, Mac OS X shows where locks like that will more likely be used: to lock software to specific hardware, not to lock specific software out.
8. Cripple playback of free media. Joe Sixpacks won't even notice by this point.
Are you kidding? Locking out free formats will be the tipping point against DRM! There's way too much unencumbered content sitting on people's shelves for Microsoft/Apple/Big Media to suddenly say "Sorry, MP3 and Red Book won't play anymore!" It's like trying to close the analog hole. You can't do it without breaking something the public needs or wants.
9. offer DRM "protection" to news agencies and corporate email.
We already have that. It's called file encryption, TLS, and PGP. Or, if you prefer, SharePoint, which is already a form of DRM that businesses may choose to use as they please, or not at all. It's not like Microsoft has to suddenly dangle this technology in front of CIOs who already have working solutions anyway.
10. Eliminate non DRM'd news from the "majors", spam the shit out of non DRM'd email and declare "unprotected" email inferior.
And here's where you take a walk off the map.
I know, I know. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you, or something like that. But this is why conspiracy theory movies require such suspension of disbelief. People suck at keeping secrets. Deep Throat met Woodward and Bernstein. ESR got his hands on the Halloween Memos.
Yes, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. But don't distract yourself with flights of fancy.
Just look at how AOL ended up using IE as their browser even though they owned Netscape.
Microsoft never blocked Netscape from functioning on Windows. AOL used IE because AOL was bloody stupid. It's as reliable as the dawn. Every time somebody thinks they have the killer app that will break Microsoft's power, they screw up. AOL devoured Netscape, then stuck with IE in their flagship product. Be neglected their OS to chase the ever-lucrative Internet Appliance market. (How many functioning Sony eVillas are left in the world, anyway?) And don't get me started on Palm/PalmOne/PalmSource/Handspring/ACCESS. West Virginia family trees aren't that twisted.
This is one of the things that will allow Linux, and FOSS in general, to win in the long term. The multitude of voices and opinions tend to be self-correcting, with benelovent dictators like Linus Torvalds keeping the focus on building up their own products, not tearing down the opposition.
The easiest way to beat Microsoft is to not beat yourself.
In WoW, you start by choosing a race. It's race that defines what faction you're aligned with (Alliance or Horde) and what classes you have access to. Even though they're fantasy races with no (direct) relation to real-world ethnicities, you're still forced by "genetics and culture" into certain roles in the overall story.
In CoX, you start with a simpler choice: Hero or Villain. A far more fundamental conflict than anything that arises from ethnicity. From there, you choose your archtype, origin, and powersets. These provide diversity strictly within the confines of game mechanics. It's only after you've chosen the CoX equivalents of faction, class, weapons, and skills that you get to that amazing character creation sandbox.
Now, anything goes. (Within the bounds of good taste and Marvel's copyright lawyers, of course.) Here, you can adopt any image you like. Project your fantasies, tell a story, show your sense of style, or just hit Random All and take whatever obnoxiously silly costume you get. You can even contradict the game-related choices you made before. There's nothing to stop you from speccing a Magic Stalker (think Night Elf Rogue), then creating an 8' tall industrial-looking robot for a toon. Or you can just stay in character and make a ninja.
In any case, you don't get any preconceived notions of race or racial stereotypes. (see also: Rastafarian Trolls.) In CoX, you're as likely to see green, blue, or metallic gold skin as you are white or brown. In CoX, you are what you do, not how you look, moreso than any other prominent MMORPG out there.
That's one of the reasons I don't use non free software. When Fry pushes the counter reset, Apple takes note that something bothered you about yourself.
If iTunes uploaded your playing statistics to Apple, you'd have a point. But it doesn't, so you don't.
Set the highest standards for emission controls in the nation.
Sue the Big Six for not exceeding those standards.
???
Profit!
If the complaint names specific instances where the auto industry refused to comply with CA's standards, I don't blame the AG for filing the suit. Otherwise, I agree with the "nuisance suit" response.
Well, height would be an issue. The Master Chief is supposed to be over 7' tall. Ray Park is only 5'9". Of course, if Peter Jackson could convince the world that Ian McKellen is a foot and a half taller than John Rhys-Davies, he could teach Halo's director a thing or two about forced perspective.
Actually, they composed that page on a MessagePad. They wrote "comically unreliable handwriting processing system", and got "disastrously mediocre voice-recognition software." Somehow, it still ended up as parsable English, so the editors missed it.
Not intentionally, mind you. He wouldn't take Microsoft's filthy lucre, nor do I think he's trying reverse psychology to promote them. But every time he posts something like this, his good intentions just end up so much proverbial paving material.
Simple cause and effect should tell you that his worst-case-scenario form of "advocacy" is a blight on this forum. Initial posts are characterized by name calling, long-disproven talking points, unqualified assertions, and in some cases pride in ignorance of the subject matter. When held accountable for his actions, he turns to non sequiturs, more name calling, the occasional gross distortion of others' posting histories, but never with proof of his original assertions.
Is this the first impression you want to give a potential switcher?
The next time you see a Twitter post, and think "You know, he's got a point.", please look for other posts that make the same point fairly and respectfully. That's the kind of advocacy we need, not the hate-filled zealotry of the likes of Twitter.
That's not Jesse Sullivan. The AP report circulating today was in advance of a press conference to introduce Claudia Mitchell, the first woman to receive one of these arms.
Here we go again. Today, it's Umbral Blot's turn to have posts that came from rational, critical thinking twisted into "pro-M$ astroturfing" at the hands of the ever-spiteful Twitter.
How do you live, Twitter? Seriously. How can you possibly function in society with this much venom and hate spewing forth from every word you say? Can you make it from Study Hall to Algebra without the kicker from the football team shoving you in a locker?
I don't care how you do it, Twitter. Go to therapy, go to church, whatever. GET HELP!
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I was going to do a point-by-point rebuttal of that shitty misrepresentation of my posting history. But I realized it was all redundant. Everything comes back to this point.
TRUTH. I'm through trying to be nice, or polite, or rational in an attempt to counterbalance your insanity. There's a reason some AC continued to post excerpts from the Linux Advocacy HOWTO after I first replied to you with it: Because you have no fucking clue what it says, nor do you care. You don't care how much of an asshole you are, or how poorly you reflect on this forum, or how poorly you reflect on Linux, the operating system you worship.
You hate Microsoft so much, you'll stoop to anything -- lies, slander, defamation -- to respond to any post that even slightly implies any form of sympathy for your devil.
Was there anything really different or insightful in any of that, or are you trying to set a new record for "Number of words wasted to say 'Windoze is teh suXX0r!!11'"? Same shit, different CID.
Because he's the President of the United States of America. Ridicule comes with the office. Eight years ago, you couldn't escape jokes about stained dresses. Sixteen years ago, every GHWB reference ended with "Wouldn't be prudent. Not at this juncture." It's a time-honoured tradition.
But the Warhammer team was spending DAOC's money. Marvel Universe has two very wealthy sugar daddies.
Cryptic was a one-game shop before Marvel Universe. Auto Assault is from another studio entirely, yet their failure hit their common publisher, NCSoft, hard enough to impact Cryptic's bottom line. Given that, I seriously doubt that Cryptic would have enough capital to launch another project on their own. They're making enough to continue to reinvest in the Cities, but no more. Otherwise, they'd already be in a state of decay. Remember, Marvel sought out Microsoft, Microsoft sought out Cryptic.
Besides, if Cities players caught the slightest hint that they were being pushed aside for Marvel Ultimate, the Cities would be stone dead before Marvel Ultimate reached their first closed beta. The Cities have, IMHO, the best dev/community relationship in the business. When NCSoft's top liason left the Cities to start up Tabula Rasa's community team, Cryptic and W00t Radio held a huge going away party on the test server. By the time I logged on, there were 7 Pocket D instances. Could you imagine that happening in SWG or WoW?
If Cryptic started neglecting the Cities, the sense of betrayal would be orders of magnitude worse than any of the core rules tomfoolery inflicted on SWG players. Don't think Statesman and Positron don't know that.
Did Zonk make a stealth edit? As I write this, the title and link read "Guitar Hero II coming to XBox 360", with no talk of exclusivity.
Well, this isn't quite the same thing. With DAOC and Warhammer, that was pretty much the same team moving on to the next big thing on their own.
One thing Positron said in his letter to The Cities community was that the Cities and Marvel Universe will have totally separate dev teams. And with the kinds of cash Marvel and Microsoft can throw at Marvel Universe, Cryptic wouldn't have to siphon any money from the Cities' team. In fact, I doubt Jack Emmert would agree to this deal if he didn't think the Cities would be self-sustaining throughout the process.
IMHO, keeping the teams separate is almost a necessity. Neither team will want new features to be dependent on the other. Certainly, there will be a new client engine, since the Cities are OpenGL. Marvel Universe will run on both Windows and XBox 360, so Direct3D would be an engineering no-brainer even if Microsoft wasn't publishing the title. And, if nothing else, the inevitable rivalry between the Cities and Marvel Universe will push both teams to prove their own worth. Marvel Universe doesn't want to be seen as a mere "re-skin" of City of Heroes, with Jean Gray and Xavier's School standing where Ms. Liberty and City Hall used to be, and the Cities don't want to be reduced to one large beta test for Marvel.
Spiderman will be the Task Force contact in Times Square.
What do you use as a frame of reference in a six-dimensional bathroom, anyway?
(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)
Twit logic at its bitter, twisted finest. cPanel is mostly perl scripts running on Linux. But perl is Free, so it is perfect and must be absolved of all wrongdoing. And Linux is Free, so it too is perfect and must be absolved of all wrongdoing. But wait! The HTML injected through the cPanel exploit is itself an IE exploit!
It all makes sense now! If Microsoft didn't build such shitty software, nobody would have ever been LOOKING for an exploit in cPanel in the first place. So it's all Microsoft's fault, and cPanel is off the hook entirely! Right?
</sarcasm>
A moment of providence: Part of the scripture readings at church this morning was James 3:13-18.
That's the sanctimonious tone you've taken in every hate-filled anti-Microsoft post you've ever made, even if you didn't say it outright.
Ladies and gentlemen, twit in a nutshell. A sad, sorry, little ball of hatred and paranoia.
Come on, twit. Take the broader view. Do you really think anybody is truly reducing the complexity of modern software? Or are we all just pushing it around, hiding it in different corners and under different rugs? And if there was a silver bullet out there, wouldn't we all be using it by now?
You can keep thumping your copy of The Cathedral and The Bazzar as if it were a Bible all you like. But until you can prove your product is not just different, but better in ways that matter to your audience and not just you, you're only advocating change for change's sake. People have better things to do with their time.
MiniStore only reports an identifier for what's selected and/or playing at the time. It doesn't transmit statistics like play count or last played date. According to Apple, that ID is only used to determine what similar tracks to display in the MiniStore view, and is then discarded.
For the record, MiniStore was opt-out when it was introduced in 6.0.2, but was changed to opt-in in 6.0.3, and has been opt-in ever since.
All-you-can-eat subscription plans are failing. Napster has to give away DAPs and attach subscription fees to college students' tuitions to puff up their numbers, and those students aren't falling for it. Pay-per-track stores like iTunes and Urge succeed because the "buy once, play forever" model appeals to customers' sense of permanence. (Well, as permanent as their backups, of course.) Oh, and don't think I didn't notice the little elitist sneer about popular music at the end.
This may be the next battleground, actually. You'll have plenty of artists who don't want the hassle of protected media when they want or need to change studios, equipment, or techniques. At the same time, though, there have been plenty of leaked albums over the years that have other artists hopping mad enough to want their unfinished works under lock and key. I think this one will end up on the side of first principles: physical security. Don't encrypt the media, but don't let Skippy The Intern have access to the workstation, either.
Microsoft has gotten pushback from too many directions and too many allies to get very far with Palladium. Besides, Mac OS X shows where locks like that will more likely be used: to lock software to specific hardware, not to lock specific software out.
Are you kidding? Locking out free formats will be the tipping point against DRM! There's way too much unencumbered content sitting on people's shelves for Microsoft/Apple/Big Media to suddenly say "Sorry, MP3 and Red Book won't play anymore!" It's like trying to close the analog hole. You can't do it without breaking something the public needs or wants.
We already have that. It's called file encryption, TLS, and PGP. Or, if you prefer, SharePoint, which is already a form of DRM that businesses may choose to use as they please, or not at all. It's not like Microsoft has to suddenly dangle this technology in front of CIOs who already have working solutions anyway.
And here's where you take a walk off the map.
I know, I know. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you, or something like that. But this is why conspiracy theory movies require such suspension of disbelief. People suck at keeping secrets. Deep Throat met Woodward and Bernstein. ESR got his hands on the Halloween Memos.
Yes, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. But don't distract yourself with flights of fancy.
Microsoft never blocked Netscape from functioning on Windows. AOL used IE because AOL was bloody stupid. It's as reliable as the dawn. Every time somebody thinks they have the killer app that will break Microsoft's power, they screw up. AOL devoured Netscape, then stuck with IE in their flagship product. Be neglected their OS to chase the ever-lucrative Internet Appliance market. (How many functioning Sony eVillas are left in the world, anyway?) And don't get me started on Palm/PalmOne/PalmSource/Handspring/ACCESS. West Virginia family trees aren't that twisted.
This is one of the things that will allow Linux, and FOSS in general, to win in the long term. The multitude of voices and opinions tend to be self-correcting, with benelovent dictators like Linus Torvalds keeping the focus on building up their own products, not tearing down the opposition.
The easiest way to beat Microsoft is to not beat yourself.
In WoW, you start by choosing a race. It's race that defines what faction you're aligned with (Alliance or Horde) and what classes you have access to. Even though they're fantasy races with no (direct) relation to real-world ethnicities, you're still forced by "genetics and culture" into certain roles in the overall story.
In CoX, you start with a simpler choice: Hero or Villain. A far more fundamental conflict than anything that arises from ethnicity. From there, you choose your archtype, origin, and powersets. These provide diversity strictly within the confines of game mechanics. It's only after you've chosen the CoX equivalents of faction, class, weapons, and skills that you get to that amazing character creation sandbox.
Now, anything goes. (Within the bounds of good taste and Marvel's copyright lawyers, of course.) Here, you can adopt any image you like. Project your fantasies, tell a story, show your sense of style, or just hit Random All and take whatever obnoxiously silly costume you get. You can even contradict the game-related choices you made before. There's nothing to stop you from speccing a Magic Stalker (think Night Elf Rogue), then creating an 8' tall industrial-looking robot for a toon. Or you can just stay in character and make a ninja.
In any case, you don't get any preconceived notions of race or racial stereotypes. (see also: Rastafarian Trolls.) In CoX, you're as likely to see green, blue, or metallic gold skin as you are white or brown. In CoX, you are what you do, not how you look, moreso than any other prominent MMORPG out there.
If iTunes uploaded your playing statistics to Apple, you'd have a point. But it doesn't, so you don't.
Let me see if have this straight...
If the complaint names specific instances where the auto industry refused to comply with CA's standards, I don't blame the AG for filing the suit. Otherwise, I agree with the "nuisance suit" response.
The Clear Private Data menu command was added in FF 1.5.
There is nothing in the linked article that suggests that DRM has anything to do with the findings.
This submission is just the latest in a long line of irrational, hate-filled postings by twitter. Please, stop enabling him!
Well, height would be an issue. The Master Chief is supposed to be over 7' tall. Ray Park is only 5'9". Of course, if Peter Jackson could convince the world that Ian McKellen is a foot and a half taller than John Rhys-Davies, he could teach Halo's director a thing or two about forced perspective.
Actually, they composed that page on a MessagePad. They wrote "comically unreliable handwriting processing system", and got "disastrously mediocre voice-recognition software." Somehow, it still ended up as parsable English, so the editors missed it.
I just had an epiphany.
Twitter is astroturfing.
Not intentionally, mind you. He wouldn't take Microsoft's filthy lucre, nor do I think he's trying reverse psychology to promote them. But every time he posts something like this, his good intentions just end up so much proverbial paving material.
Simple cause and effect should tell you that his worst-case-scenario form of "advocacy" is a blight on this forum. Initial posts are characterized by name calling, long-disproven talking points, unqualified assertions, and in some cases pride in ignorance of the subject matter. When held accountable for his actions, he turns to non sequiturs, more name calling, the occasional gross distortion of others' posting histories, but never with proof of his original assertions.
Is this the first impression you want to give a potential switcher?
The next time you see a Twitter post, and think "You know, he's got a point.", please look for other posts that make the same point fairly and respectfully. That's the kind of advocacy we need, not the hate-filled zealotry of the likes of Twitter.
That's not Jesse Sullivan. The AP report circulating today was in advance of a press conference to introduce Claudia Mitchell, the first woman to receive one of these arms.
Here we go again. Today, it's Umbral Blot's turn to have posts that came from rational, critical thinking twisted into "pro-M$ astroturfing" at the hands of the ever-spiteful Twitter.
How do you live, Twitter? Seriously. How can you possibly function in society with this much venom and hate spewing forth from every word you say? Can you make it from Study Hall to Algebra without the kicker from the football team shoving you in a locker?
I don't care how you do it, Twitter. Go to therapy, go to church, whatever. GET HELP!