Of course they don't expect you to "buy" two copies of the game.
They expect you to "license" them.
Sony's been apparently trying to convince me to stop buying anything with their name on it for at least the past ten years and they made their case years ago. This is just beating the dead horse into the ground. If Sony made the cure for cancer and I was approaching death I'd want to take a moment to read the fine print.
...came across excellent source of future revenue today. Must remember to check with marketing to see if it's possible to tie down viewers and tape their eyes open. Maybe through some kind of subliminal message we could get them to tie each other up?
Possible product placement tie-in with 3M Scotch Tape...
That number "4" was likely pulled out of his ass. It goes along side his list of things that could go wrong with an iPod but that but that didn't actually happen to him. If he did suffer from all of these problems then he needs to learn how to take better care of the stuff he buys and someone should tell him that you can replace the batteries in an iPod without having to go buy a completely different unit.
I guess the only real advantage is that your Mac is a completely "known" configuration and since there's so little variation in hardware to support the OS seems to not suffer so much from piss-poor drivers. That and the hardware is IMO very nice.
I have a PowerMac G5 an I think the case is a work of art. It's solid as all hell too. That doesn't apply across the board (the part about them being built solid) but for the most part people seem to love their design which can't be completely dismissed. It gets them some sales.
Deep down inside I think that if Apple could run this iPod thing for a couple more years at the current pace then they'd start looking at becoming a software company on the Mac side. I've always thought the iPod/iTunes thing could build to the point where they could survive the transition from selling Macs to selling an OS that would run on any Intel machine and also offering their own high end desktops at a premium price for those who want a "real" Apple with it's design coolness.
I'm a 95B too from way back. I disagree with you but of course you're entitled to your opinion. I thought it was very worthwhile and I'm sure that nobody will remember anything from my post in another month or so.
The guy was an asshole and no power in the universe could change that. Whether I tape danced around it or pointed out it made no difference whatsoever. In my opinion of course.
Well then allow me to say that I think that's wrong. Unless they're pursuing someone and have their lights on they should be at least somewhere in the vicinity of the speed limit. It annoys me as well when I see someone driving like a maniac in a police car. My first job, which I held for a very short period of time was as a deputy constable. Now here constables aren't exactly police. They are peace officers and can do all the stuff that other law enforcement officers can do but their primary job is to serve warrants and civil papers. The deputies are hired but THE constable is an elected official. IMO that's a recipie for disaster because that constable is indebted to the people who voted for him and our constable specifically told us that we weren't to write tickets unless we literally had no other choice.
We could get in trouble for writing a speeding ticket to the wrong connected asshole! I've had to just sit at an intersection while other people watched someone speed by going way faster than they were supposed to and had other motorists just stare at me like "Well, go get him!" I couldn't do it. I got out of that job as fast as possible.
Actually I'm kind of a Judge Dredd fan and I thought Mr. Furious from Mystery Men was hilarious. Half the time I'd need an avatar in a game I'd use Dredd and the other half I'd use Furious. When I got this account I was using an combination of the two and I hadn't been in law enforcemement for at least 6 years.
And I voted for Kerry. "Bush ilk" don't need any help with the FUD with guys like you on the job.
Actually, assuming that the events happened exactly like (or even close to) the way they were described I think the cops here were out of line. It doesn't make the asshole I responded to any less wrong though.
I drive faster than the speed limit sometimes (and I did then too) but I didn't go that far over the speed limit. There's kind of a 10 mph zone where you're mostly safe in SE Texas and I tended ot stick to that. Once the speed limit went up to 70 on most highways I found myself being passed left and right by people who just took it up to 80. Maybe it's because I grew up driving 55 but I'm mostly just happy to be able to go 70.
Corrupt in the classic Hollywood sense? No. I didn't meet anyone who was (to my knowledge) getting paid to stay out of the business of the some "family". I didn't know anyone who was getting money kicked back from a cartel. I didn't meet anyone who was protecting a pawn shop from prosecution for fencing stolen goods. I didn't meet anyone who had killed someone just to see the look on their face.
I did know officers who worked extra jobs in excess of the number of hours they were allowed to. I knew one guy who was a reserve who worked on the side when he wasn't supposed to and was caught. He was fired. I knew officers who ate lunch at fast foor places that gave us free food to have us around. I knew officers who abused that and a few (single guys) who actually got dressed in their uniforms to go get free food because they were cheap as all hell. I knew guys who didn't bother to ever pay for their inspection stickers or renew their license plates on old cars they used for work and I only ever saw one police officer written a ticket in the four years I worked in law enforcement. He was a colossal asshole who went far out of his way to earn it.
As a rule cops don't write other cops in my part of the country unless an accident has necessitated that a ticket must be given or they work for the Texas Department of Public Safety. DPS will write anybody. They don't care if it's their own mother they write the ticket. When you get pulled over the drill is to take out your proof of insurance and wallet. When the officer asks to see them you open you wallet and display the badge. You answer him when he asks you who you work for and hand it to him if he wants a closer look.
The guy I saw get written got out of his car and walked back to us while holding his badge in front of him like some kind of anti-ticket talisman. He tried to tell us we couldn't write him a ticket and that he was late going somewhere. My partner wrote him for speeding and expired tags/inspection sticker. Professional courtesy is one thing but an asshole is an asshole and they get back exactly what they put out.
I was pulled over two or three times while I carried a badge and never once given anything more than a "Have a good night man and be safe". I never wrote another cop a ticket while I was working. I didn't pull that many over to be honest so it's not like I'm saying I was letting them go left and right. I also made a point of not writing a chickenshit ticket. I hate that crap. For example in the case of speeding I didn't pull you over unless you were going 15 miles per hour over the speed limit or more. If I pulled you over I wrote the ticket and you weren't talking me out of it but I wasn't hiding behind billboards with a radar gun pulling over people doing 3 miles per hour over the speed limit.
I did nothing about any of the above things I described. When I was a kid and worked at McDonalds I didn't turn in guys who made themselves a free triple cheesburger at the end of the shift. When my boss told me I could take a motherboard home that the company had paid for and didn't need anymore I didn't turn him in either. I don't see any of the above as being particularly "evil" or out of the ordinary.
I did law enforcement for a living in Houston Texas for 4 years. I had to get out of it due to a fall down a flight of stairs (not work related though, just me making a very poor decision one morning) but in those four years (admittedly not exactly a long career) I did not meet a single officer who carried a "throw away weapon". At least not in the form of a gun with no serial number. Every firearm made and legally imported into this country has a serial number and even when they've been ground entirely off the numbers can still be made out using a technique that examines the impressions made in the remaining steel when it was stamped into the metal. I did know some officers who carried knives. I can't recall ever needing a knife while I was at work. I can do the math.
I'm a former cop and I think you're dead wrong. You're painting a large group of people who do a generally unpleasant job with a very large brush. I didn't call it "heroic" you'll notice. It's not. It's mostly long shifts of boredom punctuated by a very few moments of scared shitless.
Every cop is not "dirty". You just don't know shit about cops. It's understandable really. Not many people really do know what they're talking about when they decide to start venting on law enforcement. People all want the world to work the way it's supposed to but nobody wants to be inconvenienced by the law themselves. Let me drive faster than the speed limit, don't give me any shit about the smell of beer on my breath, and get out of my yard because it's my right to kick my old lady's ass if she's out of line.
If you think cops are all total pricks you should see some of the total pricks they have to deal with.
Actual strike that comment. It wouldn't do you any good. You probably are one.
No confusion, it's simple really. If assholes didn't exist then there would be no need to worry about having to deal with assholes. There would also be no need to argue with them when they try to claim that the shit they do contributes to a better computing experience for everyone.
True, Napster did force everyone into the digital generation. They went there to haul out as much free shit as they could carry like looters in a storm but why split hairs right?
Exactly true. I think it's worth noting though that he did partially get it right though. Not the part about Hawking, the part about America. Maybe in Spain the Inquisition can't come for you if you're expecting it but in America the Inquisition comes for you when it's damned good and ready to come for you whether you're expecting it or not. In America the Inquisition never sleeps.
Don't hold out on us. I know I'm not the only one with a bunch of PS2 mice that I'd love to plug into a USB port and use. I just need a link to a schematic or maybe you could email me a walkthrough on how you made that work. I'm sure with a few friends I could reverse engineer it get it working myself.
Seriously, put me on the list before you start charging for that stuff.
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Seriously, Tom's Hardware could crank out 40 worthless pages reviewing a fucking toothpick these days. I eludes me why anyone continues to try and read that shit. The thing hasn't been worth looking at in over 5 years.
I was kidding for crying out loud. "Flamebait"? Are you kidding me? You ain't seen me throw out Flamebait suckers. If you did you wouldn't be modding it down. You'd be too busy fighting in the flame war I started!
You know I'm clicking anything tha "the ladies are into" just to see where that's going but I wasn't expecting that. You had to go put that link there and then I clicked it and now I can't ever get clean again. It's like a combination of that creepy embarrassed way you felt when you watched all those sad bastards in Trekkies with just a touch of homophobia I didn't even know I had.
Fuck you so much man. Fuck you. I wish that page and those people had never touched my consciousness.
I saw it originally in a theater but saying I want to go back and see it the way I originally did would be incorrect. The theater I saw it in was pitiful compared to what we have today. No stadium seating and lousy sound if my memory serves me. It's not like I noticed at the time but hey, when that movie came out the theater just wasn't what it is today at least in my area.
It's bad enough knowing that we're getting closer every day to the moment when robots decide that we're just too much damned trouble to keep around but do we have to keep developing new things to make them impossible to escape from? Anyone else see this and start connecting the slashdot articles?
There was the one about the Japanese chick robot followed by the similar South Korean model, then a little farther back we have our artificial "muscle".
Combine those with the story a year or so back about the robots that power themselves by digesting organic matter and frankly all my best nightmares start out on Slashdot. I'll probably be in my 60's when the sexy Japanese carnivorous wall climbing robots with super strength come to get me.
Put your iPod in a clear transparent (and waterproof, just to be safe) case that adds a wireless connector which then uses Bluetooth to talk to your toilet seat. While you pinch a loaf it weighs you, takes your temperature, scans your dump as it passes the "sensor ring", and gives you helpful dietary suggestions along with playing a preset song that you've associated with one of a half-dozen air freshener options.
I think more people understand this than appear to. It's just so much more amusing to picture a couple of "cavemen" hanging out by a big rock, watching a female chimp walk by, and saying to each other "I'd hit it"
That's 100% correct. Users aren't prepared to put up with drivers that are shitty and break when we make changes! You tell them how it is Cal.
They are however prepared to live with "having 1/3rd the devices supported, 1/3rd supported poorly, and 1/3rd oblivious to your existence." I saw in another post on this thread where someone mentioned that "this isn't 1998 anymore" and that's kind of interesting because in those 7-8 years we've seen Linux having "dick" in the way of drivers to now having that "1/3rd" or so supported. There's some lightning-fast progress my friend. If we can putz around like this for another 20-25 years we'll be looking at complete "2006" driver support.
Maybe.
The relative handful of Linux users today seem content with it so I don't know why Novell wants to change things. I bet they just want to increase their user numbers. Idiots.
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Of course they don't expect you to "buy" two copies of the game.
They expect you to "license" them.
Sony's been apparently trying to convince me to stop buying anything with their name on it for at least the past ten years and they made their case years ago. This is just beating the dead horse into the ground. If Sony made the cure for cancer and I was approaching death I'd want to take a moment to read the fine print.
Possible product placement tie-in with 3M Scotch Tape...
Because he's full of shit.
That number "4" was likely pulled out of his ass. It goes along side his list of things that could go wrong with an iPod but that but that didn't actually happen to him. If he did suffer from all of these problems then he needs to learn how to take better care of the stuff he buys and someone should tell him that you can replace the batteries in an iPod without having to go buy a completely different unit.
I guess the only real advantage is that your Mac is a completely "known" configuration and since there's so little variation in hardware to support the OS seems to not suffer so much from piss-poor drivers. That and the hardware is IMO very nice.
I have a PowerMac G5 an I think the case is a work of art. It's solid as all hell too. That doesn't apply across the board (the part about them being built solid) but for the most part people seem to love their design which can't be completely dismissed. It gets them some sales.
Deep down inside I think that if Apple could run this iPod thing for a couple more years at the current pace then they'd start looking at becoming a software company on the Mac side. I've always thought the iPod/iTunes thing could build to the point where they could survive the transition from selling Macs to selling an OS that would run on any Intel machine and also offering their own high end desktops at a premium price for those who want a "real" Apple with it's design coolness.
I'm a 95B too from way back. I disagree with you but of course you're entitled to your opinion. I thought it was very worthwhile and I'm sure that nobody will remember anything from my post in another month or so.
The guy was an asshole and no power in the universe could change that. Whether I tape danced around it or pointed out it made no difference whatsoever. In my opinion of course.
Well then allow me to say that I think that's wrong. Unless they're pursuing someone and have their lights on they should be at least somewhere in the vicinity of the speed limit. It annoys me as well when I see someone driving like a maniac in a police car. My first job, which I held for a very short period of time was as a deputy constable. Now here constables aren't exactly police. They are peace officers and can do all the stuff that other law enforcement officers can do but their primary job is to serve warrants and civil papers. The deputies are hired but THE constable is an elected official. IMO that's a recipie for disaster because that constable is indebted to the people who voted for him and our constable specifically told us that we weren't to write tickets unless we literally had no other choice.
We could get in trouble for writing a speeding ticket to the wrong connected asshole! I've had to just sit at an intersection while other people watched someone speed by going way faster than they were supposed to and had other motorists just stare at me like "Well, go get him!" I couldn't do it. I got out of that job as fast as possible.
Actually I'm kind of a Judge Dredd fan and I thought Mr. Furious from Mystery Men was hilarious. Half the time I'd need an avatar in a game I'd use Dredd and the other half I'd use Furious. When I got this account I was using an combination of the two and I hadn't been in law enforcemement for at least 6 years.
And I voted for Kerry. "Bush ilk" don't need any help with the FUD with guys like you on the job.
Actually, assuming that the events happened exactly like (or even close to) the way they were described I think the cops here were out of line. It doesn't make the asshole I responded to any less wrong though.
I drive faster than the speed limit sometimes (and I did then too) but I didn't go that far over the speed limit. There's kind of a 10 mph zone where you're mostly safe in SE Texas and I tended ot stick to that. Once the speed limit went up to 70 on most highways I found myself being passed left and right by people who just took it up to 80. Maybe it's because I grew up driving 55 but I'm mostly just happy to be able to go 70.
Corrupt in the classic Hollywood sense? No. I didn't meet anyone who was (to my knowledge) getting paid to stay out of the business of the some "family". I didn't know anyone who was getting money kicked back from a cartel. I didn't meet anyone who was protecting a pawn shop from prosecution for fencing stolen goods. I didn't meet anyone who had killed someone just to see the look on their face.
I did know officers who worked extra jobs in excess of the number of hours they were allowed to. I knew one guy who was a reserve who worked on the side when he wasn't supposed to and was caught. He was fired. I knew officers who ate lunch at fast foor places that gave us free food to have us around. I knew officers who abused that and a few (single guys) who actually got dressed in their uniforms to go get free food because they were cheap as all hell. I knew guys who didn't bother to ever pay for their inspection stickers or renew their license plates on old cars they used for work and I only ever saw one police officer written a ticket in the four years I worked in law enforcement. He was a colossal asshole who went far out of his way to earn it.
As a rule cops don't write other cops in my part of the country unless an accident has necessitated that a ticket must be given or they work for the Texas Department of Public Safety. DPS will write anybody. They don't care if it's their own mother they write the ticket. When you get pulled over the drill is to take out your proof of insurance and wallet. When the officer asks to see them you open you wallet and display the badge. You answer him when he asks you who you work for and hand it to him if he wants a closer look.
The guy I saw get written got out of his car and walked back to us while holding his badge in front of him like some kind of anti-ticket talisman. He tried to tell us we couldn't write him a ticket and that he was late going somewhere. My partner wrote him for speeding and expired tags/inspection sticker. Professional courtesy is one thing but an asshole is an asshole and they get back exactly what they put out.
I was pulled over two or three times while I carried a badge and never once given anything more than a "Have a good night man and be safe". I never wrote another cop a ticket while I was working. I didn't pull that many over to be honest so it's not like I'm saying I was letting them go left and right. I also made a point of not writing a chickenshit ticket. I hate that crap. For example in the case of speeding I didn't pull you over unless you were going 15 miles per hour over the speed limit or more. If I pulled you over I wrote the ticket and you weren't talking me out of it but I wasn't hiding behind billboards with a radar gun pulling over people doing 3 miles per hour over the speed limit.
I did nothing about any of the above things I described. When I was a kid and worked at McDonalds I didn't turn in guys who made themselves a free triple cheesburger at the end of the shift. When my boss told me I could take a motherboard home that the company had paid for and didn't need anymore I didn't turn him in either. I don't see any of the above as being particularly "evil" or out of the ordinary.
I did law enforcement for a living in Houston Texas for 4 years. I had to get out of it due to a fall down a flight of stairs (not work related though, just me making a very poor decision one morning) but in those four years (admittedly not exactly a long career) I did not meet a single officer who carried a "throw away weapon". At least not in the form of a gun with no serial number. Every firearm made and legally imported into this country has a serial number and even when they've been ground entirely off the numbers can still be made out using a technique that examines the impressions made in the remaining steel when it was stamped into the metal. I did know some officers who carried knives. I can't recall ever needing a knife while I was at work. I can do the math.
I'm a former cop and I think you're dead wrong. You're painting a large group of people who do a generally unpleasant job with a very large brush. I didn't call it "heroic" you'll notice. It's not. It's mostly long shifts of boredom punctuated by a very few moments of scared shitless.
Every cop is not "dirty". You just don't know shit about cops. It's understandable really. Not many people really do know what they're talking about when they decide to start venting on law enforcement. People all want the world to work the way it's supposed to but nobody wants to be inconvenienced by the law themselves. Let me drive faster than the speed limit, don't give me any shit about the smell of beer on my breath, and get out of my yard because it's my right to kick my old lady's ass if she's out of line.
If you think cops are all total pricks you should see some of the total pricks they have to deal with.
Actual strike that comment. It wouldn't do you any good. You probably are one.
No confusion, it's simple really. If assholes didn't exist then there would be no need to worry about having to deal with assholes. There would also be no need to argue with them when they try to claim that the shit they do contributes to a better computing experience for everyone.
True, Napster did force everyone into the digital generation. They went there to haul out as much free shit as they could carry like looters in a storm but why split hairs right?
Exactly true. I think it's worth noting though that he did partially get it right though. Not the part about Hawking, the part about America. Maybe in Spain the Inquisition can't come for you if you're expecting it but in America the Inquisition comes for you when it's damned good and ready to come for you whether you're expecting it or not. In America the Inquisition never sleeps.
"It's a trick, get an axe!" - Bruce Campbell, Army of Darkness.
Don't hold out on us. I know I'm not the only one with a bunch of PS2 mice that I'd love to plug into a USB port and use. I just need a link to a schematic or maybe you could email me a walkthrough on how you made that work. I'm sure with a few friends I could reverse engineer it get it working myself.
Seriously, put me on the list before you start charging for that stuff.
Do you care if there is very little or no content?
Seriously, Tom's Hardware could crank out 40 worthless pages reviewing a fucking toothpick these days. I eludes me why anyone continues to try and read that shit. The thing hasn't been worth looking at in over 5 years.
I was kidding for crying out loud. "Flamebait"? Are you kidding me? You ain't seen me throw out Flamebait suckers. If you did you wouldn't be modding it down. You'd be too busy fighting in the flame war I started!
You know I'm clicking anything tha "the ladies are into" just to see where that's going but I wasn't expecting that. You had to go put that link there and then I clicked it and now I can't ever get clean again. It's like a combination of that creepy embarrassed way you felt when you watched all those sad bastards in Trekkies with just a touch of homophobia I didn't even know I had.
Fuck you so much man. Fuck you. I wish that page and those people had never touched my consciousness.
I saw it originally in a theater but saying I want to go back and see it the way I originally did would be incorrect. The theater I saw it in was pitiful compared to what we have today. No stadium seating and lousy sound if my memory serves me. It's not like I noticed at the time but hey, when that movie came out the theater just wasn't what it is today at least in my area.
It's bad enough knowing that we're getting closer every day to the moment when robots decide that we're just too much damned trouble to keep around but do we have to keep developing new things to make them impossible to escape from? Anyone else see this and start connecting the slashdot articles?
There was the one about the Japanese chick robot followed by the similar South Korean model, then a little farther back we have our artificial "muscle".
Combine those with the story a year or so back about the robots that power themselves by digesting organic matter and frankly all my best nightmares start out on Slashdot. I'll probably be in my 60's when the sexy Japanese carnivorous wall climbing robots with super strength come to get me.
Put your iPod in a clear transparent (and waterproof, just to be safe) case that adds a wireless connector which then uses Bluetooth to talk to your toilet seat. While you pinch a loaf it weighs you, takes your temperature, scans your dump as it passes the "sensor ring", and gives you helpful dietary suggestions along with playing a preset song that you've associated with one of a half-dozen air freshener options.
I think more people understand this than appear to. It's just so much more amusing to picture a couple of "cavemen" hanging out by a big rock, watching a female chimp walk by, and saying to each other "I'd hit it"
That's 100% correct. Users aren't prepared to put up with drivers that are shitty and break when we make changes! You tell them how it is Cal.
They are however prepared to live with "having 1/3rd the devices supported, 1/3rd supported poorly, and 1/3rd oblivious to your existence." I saw in another post on this thread where someone mentioned that "this isn't 1998 anymore" and that's kind of interesting because in those 7-8 years we've seen Linux having "dick" in the way of drivers to now having that "1/3rd" or so supported. There's some lightning-fast progress my friend. If we can putz around like this for another 20-25 years we'll be looking at complete "2006" driver support.
Maybe.
The relative handful of Linux users today seem content with it so I don't know why Novell wants to change things. I bet they just want to increase their user numbers. Idiots.