Given the Holocaust Israel is committing right now in Gaza
Spoken by a true student of... er, no, not history that's for sure. This isn't a holocaust, it's a mere reconnaissance in force. Call me when they start burning over 20,000 people a day for the crime of "Not Being Israeli". THEN you'll have your holocaust.
Why do people scream "war crimes", "genocide" and "holocaust" all the time since the war in the Balkans? War is ugly. Chuck rockets at your neighbor and what do you expect? I'm sure Canada wouldn't tolerate it from the US. We'd have to invade them and burn down their White House again.
Surely that's worth forking out yet another $200. I HAVE to buy it!!!
As Warren Buffet said: Microsoft is a company without a business model.
Funny, I just swapped motherboards in my dual boot computer. Guess which partition I had to re-format and re-install. Was it linux? NOPE. Linux detected my new board and CPU and booted everything like a charm. Windows, on the other hand... and that's because I run XP. Heavens forbid I ran Vista - I'm sure I'd have to pay the Microsoft tax yet again because I dared to upgrade my PC.
Oh well. Good luck, Microsoft. Hey is Direct X 11 only going to run on Windows 7?
Possibly for the same reason that you can't shoot random people in the head, even if you don't have a signed contract with them and they will never be your customer.
If you don't understand that two wrongs don't make a right, then perhaps there was a lack of effective parenting in your childhood.
Just because someone gives you a copy of their copyrighted work doesn't mean you get to copy and redistribute it.
No, but it becomes harder to justify $150,000 per copy per title when you a) give them away and b) sell them for $0.99 or so through a third party. Two wrongs don't make a right, but those who abuse the law can't complain when their loophole is closed. In fact, we can ALL breathe a sigh of relief as the pendulum swings back towards the side of sanity for a while.
During the incident you mentioned, the pressure differential was one of nine atmospheres. However between atmospheric pressure and vacuum there is only one atmosphere difference - at rest. That is hardly any pressure difference at all. I should think that a more important factor is the actual pressure experienced caused by the shuttle's tremendous speeds - even with a very low static pressure. I for one would not like to be hit in the face by that since it's enough to heat the shuttle's outsides to well over 2000 degrees - but in this case it would be pressurization, not depressurization.
As a private citizen anywhere else in the world, you have the right to absolutely everything imaginable - except what is specifically prohibited by law.
In the US, you are restricted to what is listed in the "consitution". At least that's the attitude from your new lawmakers nowadays.
Enjoy your slavery, America. At least it makes it easier to take stuff away from you - you never had a right to it in the first place.
To be honest, the average persona really has no need for the power that modern PC's have
Yeah, 640k should be enough for anyone.
History has proven your statement wrong. OK today's PC is faster, but you have no idea what neat technology is lurking right around the corner to suck up all your CPU time, RAM and bandwidth. Just the other day I was reading up on the new motherboards that can support up to 64GB of RAM for the new Intel i7 chip. Why do you think we've hit the "RAM" limit? Do you honestly think I envisioned having 1.5TB of hard disk space 5 years ago? But that's what I have, and it's enough for me - for now.
Trying to predict the future by looking at the past is not a good idea. The future always has a couple surprises in store for you. And if you don't believe that, I have some stock to sell you. Cheap!
You miss the point. A self appointed "leader" will ALWAYS appear - because the personal benefit to that person is huge, whereas the "burden" of supporting that one person on the rest of society is minimal - at least far less than trying to do something about it and getting killed.
Revolutions only happen when the "burden" of government on normal people becomes so large, there's not much to lose by rising up anyway. People live happily under dictators, especially when the dictator is consistent and doesn't change the rules all the time, and the people are fed. Problems start when the dictator is paranoid and has a real or imagined political enemy and starts killing people seemingly at random, or when he forgets to feed his people.
Show me a world where no one is in charge, and I will guarantee that within weeks the most ruthless, murderous individual will suddenly be in charge. It's a fact of life. The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
That's why we should eliminate the need for a government
There's no "need" for government. It is imposed on a population. Remember the old saying: "Political power grows from the barrel of a gun". Your metagovernment world collapses the minute someone with a gun turns off the servers and starts telling people what to do. That is reality.
Market speculators in a game. It's a fucking game for c'sake, not a damn country/government.
To each their own. Some people like shooting creatures from hell when playing a game called Doom, some people like moving medieval armies around a chessboard, and some people like speculating in make believe markets. All of them are GAMES. If you don't like it, don't play it. I'm amazed at your delusions of grandeur that let you think you are God's One and Only Game Censor, and can decide which games are Worthy and which games are Not.
Short version: no one cares if you don't like EVE. Go play your shooter and leave us alone.
one might expect the gang of three to be able to perform maneuvers that a gang of thirty couldn't pull off
And vice-versa. But at the end of the day, three people is ONLY three people. If one dies, you've lost 33% of your force. The more people you have, the more options you have. Numbers will usually always win, all other things (weapons, skill of the commander, etc) being equal.
If you don't believe me ask yourself what are the odds that one guy could do with $14K what big corps like IBM have failed to do with hundreds of millions of dollars or research?
I guess you're not much of a history person, are you? The world is FULL of examples of "one guy in his garage" doing far more than mega-corporations, from aircraft to linux.
Yes it could be a fraud, but your argument is invalid.
It would seem an information pool this large could only come from such a source.
Why? Your argument has a flaw. It doesn't ONLY have to come from a "government source". If I know how to hack ONE bank account, what is stopping me from hacking EVERY bank account that is "protected" by the exact same security scheme?
Conversely, with the Windows near "monoculture", if I know how to hack ONE computer using a specific OS/browser, what is stopping me from hacking ALL computers using that OS/browser?
It doesn't have to be a "government employee" at all. Just a few banks using the same "security" system and/or clients using the same programs with the same flaw. Once you have the master key, there's no limit to the doors you can open in the building.
DNA's greatest advantage is its LACK of stability, which allows it to mutate and create all the diversity we have on the planet now. OK engineering a more stable form of genetic material may be cool, but that wouldn't necessarily make it a better/more successful life form. In fact, quite the opposite.
It's not DRM, it's the "we have to get this out the door before Christmas z0mg Xmas sales!!!11" mentality from the short sighted marketing department. Ship now and patch later is typical for this time of year. It probably does not bode well for the franchise, however.
Yeah, the DRM probably broke the game, but QA HAS to have seen this problem before shipping. Obviously $50 a copy was more important than the trivial fact of the game actually working or not.
Makes you wish you could have tried it first before buying it, huh? Oh wait, thanks to "copyright infringement" laws making YOU the criminal and DRM, you can't.
Enjoy being ripped off your $49.99. I guess eventually they'll get a patch out. But remember to support the industry! They obviously want your money more than you do.
First, explain how the 90% number is derived, apart from the "rectal extraction" technique. A quick google search shows over a million hits for that number, but saying something a million times doesn't make it true.
Then, recognize that the company that produced it is making profit. Most of those front page google hits admit this. By no means are they going bankrupt despite this "90% piracy rate", whatever THAT means. AFAIK there's no reliable method to detect how many copies are downloaded on emule/vuze/torrent sites. Does it mean they sold 90% less copies than expected? Ahh, that's a number you can calculate - but ok I expect to sell one million grains of sand from my back yard tonight. Am I setting myself up for disappointment later this evening you think?
Thirdly, my statement stands. "Piracy" is directly proportional to how good a game is. I've never seen World of Goo, but it seems rather popular obviously.
I fail to see how my argument is refuted by your statement.
No, the goal is to increase revenues by decreasing piracy and preventing sale of used games.
No, the goal (for the DRM peddler) is to PRETEND to offer increased revenues by PRETENDING to decrease piracy and prevent sale of used games. However the only revenue that is actually increased is the "security" company's.
No one wants to buy shitty games. The good games are cracked usually within hours of release with few exceptions. However good games still make money. If Electronic Arts could build a multi-billion dollar company by releasing endless versions of the same steaming piles of shit, there's money to be made despite piracy.
But it's so easy to blame lack of sales on copyright infringement. Piracy and sales are DIRECTLY, not inversely, proportional. If a game sucks NO ONE WILL PIRATE IT. So if your game didn't sell it's because IT SUCKS, not because everyone managed to download it before going to the store.
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3. the game will be sold in the "black market".
Sold? No, the game will be "downloaded" on the black market :)
You forgot the bit about the Time Cube!
lute solo
Is that Han's younger brother?
Given the Holocaust Israel is committing right now in Gaza
Spoken by a true student of... er, no, not history that's for sure. This isn't a holocaust, it's a mere reconnaissance in force. Call me when they start burning over 20,000 people a day for the crime of "Not Being Israeli". THEN you'll have your holocaust.
Why do people scream "war crimes", "genocide" and "holocaust" all the time since the war in the Balkans? War is ugly. Chuck rockets at your neighbor and what do you expect? I'm sure Canada wouldn't tolerate it from the US. We'd have to invade them and burn down their White House again.
Why yes, that's much easier than... connect hard drive, turn power on, boot....
QED
Oh my GOD, it has a NEW TASKBAR!!!
Surely that's worth forking out yet another $200. I HAVE to buy it!!!
As Warren Buffet said: Microsoft is a company without a business model.
Funny, I just swapped motherboards in my dual boot computer. Guess which partition I had to re-format and re-install. Was it linux? NOPE. Linux detected my new board and CPU and booted everything like a charm. Windows, on the other hand... and that's because I run XP. Heavens forbid I ran Vista - I'm sure I'd have to pay the Microsoft tax yet again because I dared to upgrade my PC.
Oh well. Good luck, Microsoft. Hey is Direct X 11 only going to run on Windows 7?
Possibly for the same reason that you can't shoot random people in the head, even if you don't have a signed contract with them and they will never be your customer.
If you don't understand that two wrongs don't make a right, then perhaps there was a lack of effective parenting in your childhood.
Just because someone gives you a copy of their copyrighted work doesn't mean you get to copy and redistribute it.
No, but it becomes harder to justify $150,000 per copy per title when you a) give them away and b) sell them for $0.99 or so through a third party. Two wrongs don't make a right, but those who abuse the law can't complain when their loophole is closed. In fact, we can ALL breathe a sigh of relief as the pendulum swings back towards the side of sanity for a while.
During the incident you mentioned, the pressure differential was one of nine atmospheres. However between atmospheric pressure and vacuum there is only one atmosphere difference - at rest. That is hardly any pressure difference at all. I should think that a more important factor is the actual pressure experienced caused by the shuttle's tremendous speeds - even with a very low static pressure. I for one would not like to be hit in the face by that since it's enough to heat the shuttle's outsides to well over 2000 degrees - but in this case it would be pressurization, not depressurization.
hire people with surprising bodies ... to leap out from behind the obstacle and exhibit
Shouldn't make much difference to a blind person, unless the surprise has to do with certain smells...
As a private citizen anywhere else in the world, you have the right to absolutely everything imaginable - except what is specifically prohibited by law.
In the US, you are restricted to what is listed in the "consitution". At least that's the attitude from your new lawmakers nowadays.
Enjoy your slavery, America. At least it makes it easier to take stuff away from you - you never had a right to it in the first place.
To be honest, the average persona really has no need for the power that modern PC's have
Yeah, 640k should be enough for anyone.
History has proven your statement wrong. OK today's PC is faster, but you have no idea what neat technology is lurking right around the corner to suck up all your CPU time, RAM and bandwidth. Just the other day I was reading up on the new motherboards that can support up to 64GB of RAM for the new Intel i7 chip. Why do you think we've hit the "RAM" limit? Do you honestly think I envisioned having 1.5TB of hard disk space 5 years ago? But that's what I have, and it's enough for me - for now.
Trying to predict the future by looking at the past is not a good idea. The future always has a couple surprises in store for you. And if you don't believe that, I have some stock to sell you. Cheap!
the government has no leaders
You miss the point. A self appointed "leader" will ALWAYS appear - because the personal benefit to that person is huge, whereas the "burden" of supporting that one person on the rest of society is minimal - at least far less than trying to do something about it and getting killed.
Revolutions only happen when the "burden" of government on normal people becomes so large, there's not much to lose by rising up anyway. People live happily under dictators, especially when the dictator is consistent and doesn't change the rules all the time, and the people are fed. Problems start when the dictator is paranoid and has a real or imagined political enemy and starts killing people seemingly at random, or when he forgets to feed his people.
Show me a world where no one is in charge, and I will guarantee that within weeks the most ruthless, murderous individual will suddenly be in charge. It's a fact of life. The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
That's why we should eliminate the need for a government
There's no "need" for government. It is imposed on a population. Remember the old saying: "Political power grows from the barrel of a gun". Your metagovernment world collapses the minute someone with a gun turns off the servers and starts telling people what to do. That is reality.
I'd like to see a Windows-free educational system.
What, and do away with the education free educational system we have now?
I can't believe you cited Doom as an example. This is 2008, almost 2009.
I cited chess too, which is a far older game than Doom. Grow up.
Market speculators in a game. It's a fucking game for c'sake, not a damn country/government.
To each their own. Some people like shooting creatures from hell when playing a game called Doom, some people like moving medieval armies around a chessboard, and some people like speculating in make believe markets. All of them are GAMES. If you don't like it, don't play it. I'm amazed at your delusions of grandeur that let you think you are God's One and Only Game Censor, and can decide which games are Worthy and which games are Not.
Short version: no one cares if you don't like EVE. Go play your shooter and leave us alone.
one might expect the gang of three to be able to perform maneuvers that a gang of thirty couldn't pull off
And vice-versa. But at the end of the day, three people is ONLY three people. If one dies, you've lost 33% of your force. The more people you have, the more options you have. Numbers will usually always win, all other things (weapons, skill of the commander, etc) being equal.
If you don't believe me ask yourself what are the odds that one guy could do with $14K what big corps like IBM have failed to do with hundreds of millions of dollars or research?
I guess you're not much of a history person, are you? The world is FULL of examples of "one guy in his garage" doing far more than mega-corporations, from aircraft to linux.
Yes it could be a fraud, but your argument is invalid.
It would seem an information pool this large could only come from such a source.
Why? Your argument has a flaw. It doesn't ONLY have to come from a "government source". If I know how to hack ONE bank account, what is stopping me from hacking EVERY bank account that is "protected" by the exact same security scheme?
Conversely, with the Windows near "monoculture", if I know how to hack ONE computer using a specific OS/browser, what is stopping me from hacking ALL computers using that OS/browser?
It doesn't have to be a "government employee" at all. Just a few banks using the same "security" system and/or clients using the same programs with the same flaw. Once you have the master key, there's no limit to the doors you can open in the building.
DNA's greatest advantage is its LACK of stability, which allows it to mutate and create all the diversity we have on the planet now. OK engineering a more stable form of genetic material may be cool, but that wouldn't necessarily make it a better/more successful life form. In fact, quite the opposite.
It's the DRM.
Is that what they call Christmas now?
It's not DRM, it's the "we have to get this out the door before Christmas z0mg Xmas sales!!!11" mentality from the short sighted marketing department. Ship now and patch later is typical for this time of year. It probably does not bode well for the franchise, however.
Yeah, the DRM probably broke the game, but QA HAS to have seen this problem before shipping. Obviously $50 a copy was more important than the trivial fact of the game actually working or not.
Makes you wish you could have tried it first before buying it, huh? Oh wait, thanks to "copyright infringement" laws making YOU the criminal and DRM, you can't.
Enjoy being ripped off your $49.99. I guess eventually they'll get a patch out. But remember to support the industry! They obviously want your money more than you do.
First, explain how the 90% number is derived, apart from the "rectal extraction" technique. A quick google search shows over a million hits for that number, but saying something a million times doesn't make it true.
Then, recognize that the company that produced it is making profit. Most of those front page google hits admit this. By no means are they going bankrupt despite this "90% piracy rate", whatever THAT means. AFAIK there's no reliable method to detect how many copies are downloaded on emule/vuze/torrent sites. Does it mean they sold 90% less copies than expected? Ahh, that's a number you can calculate - but ok I expect to sell one million grains of sand from my back yard tonight. Am I setting myself up for disappointment later this evening you think?
Thirdly, my statement stands. "Piracy" is directly proportional to how good a game is. I've never seen World of Goo, but it seems rather popular obviously.
I fail to see how my argument is refuted by your statement.
No, the goal is to increase revenues by decreasing piracy and preventing sale of used games.
No, the goal (for the DRM peddler) is to PRETEND to offer increased revenues by PRETENDING to decrease piracy and prevent sale of used games. However the only revenue that is actually increased is the "security" company's.
No one wants to buy shitty games. The good games are cracked usually within hours of release with few exceptions. However good games still make money. If Electronic Arts could build a multi-billion dollar company by releasing endless versions of the same steaming piles of shit, there's money to be made despite piracy.
But it's so easy to blame lack of sales on copyright infringement. Piracy and sales are DIRECTLY, not inversely, proportional. If a game sucks NO ONE WILL PIRATE IT. So if your game didn't sell it's because IT SUCKS, not because everyone managed to download it before going to the store.