If they are blacklisted, it means they are hosting spammers and this (customers like you putting pressure on them) is the only way to get them to clean up their act.
For way too many people their current ISP is their only choice, and the people who are most likely to complain are the "power users" that most ISPs would love to get rid of in order to lower their bandwidth costs. I fail to see what complaining will do. What in the world do you have to threaten them with? Making their lives easier?
He'd have to REALLY be desperate to grab for one night spending someone else's money (which ALWAYS impresses the chicks...hey wait...) as some kind of silver bullet to happiness. Take the PS2, and wait for someone real to come along.
Unless you already had a PS2 of course, and all expenses paid REALLY MEANS all expenses paid... There are some DAMN find sushi restaurants in San Francisco that I'd love to patronize on someone else's dime. If she wants to come along and just have some good food, some drinks, and shoot the shit, sure whatever. Matter of fact, that'd probably be the most likely situation for something starting up. Someone who's secure and not worrying about starting a relationship is far more attractive than someone desperate not to fuck up and is walking on eggshells. Can't have fun at all with someone like that.
This is one of the most ridiculous self-martyrdom acts I've ever heard. Good riddance to her resignation. Linux is a "natural resource". It's lying around waiting for people to develop it and make it useful for a purpose. It's like getting angry at steel foundries because the military vehicles in Iraq are made of steel, or Kellogs because the military buys Shredded Wheat to send over to Iraq to feed American troops.
Linux, and the GPL primarily, are not for this woman, and those who hold her "you can use this software in any way you want except the ways I don't want you do" view. May I suggest hacking up FreeBSD and releasing it under a license that specifically prohibits government use. Or possibly Microsoft Windows, seeing as the management at Microsoft holds quite simmilar views about controlling what you, I, or anyone else can do with their software.
Yes. I want the IP rights protected by the GPL protected, so however much I dislike Microsoft, what's good for the goose is certainly good for the gander.
the lesson is not "stay out of banks", but "don't rob banks"
You don't mind metal detectors at the movie theater? Thanks but no thanks. I deal with it at the airport 'cause sometimes I have to fly. I deal with it at government buildings because sometimes I have to deal with the government. I won't deal with it at the movies because I don't have to see them. I'm not going to take the swiss army knife off my keychain just so I don't get hassled while going into a theater. I don't know about you, but I generally don't go to a theater where I need to be protected from people packing heat.
No, the lesson, at least for me, is certainly "don't go to movie theaters anymore".
And just because a man wrote it, that means it's instantly not polarizing, no matter what it says, and it's automatically considered rational, well thought out, enlightened criticism, regardless of actual merit.
How many times are videogame companies going to expect people to dish out money for the same exact games?
Probably as long as those games ported from older systems continue to be among the biggest selling GBA games. Hell, that's why I got a GBA, to be able to play all the older classic games without needing to deal with ROMs. Fully half, at least, of my GBA collection is remade SNES/NES games.
How long before the moderates speak out against this assault? How long before they act?
You'll be waiting for a lot longer than you want to, because moderates are moderates. Moderates are people who generally want to get on with their lives and don't want to have to deal with politics or politicians. They just want to be able to do their shit and not get in anyone else's way, or have anyone get in their way. You'll never see a moderate organization going after something because that would require them being...well...not moderate.
Works like a charm, does everything for you. I found burning CDs under Linux impossible until I found that package, and now I don't bother with rebooting into Windows to burn them.
Are you upset because they made a kick ass game or something?
No, I never said anything of the sort. I said that they apparently have only a single development studio that can produce games with mass appeal in the US, without hanging on for dear life to Sonic and company. I personally like most of the games Sega makes, but that has nothing to do with them obviously hitting the skids as far as generally making money is concerned. They can't survive on just me.
Also, to anyone who says F-Zero GX is hard.
Who said anything one way or the other?
If you seriously complained about how hard this game is, you FUCKING SUCK AT VIDEO GAMES.
You posting this serves pretty clear notice to me that whomever you are, troll or no, you fucking suck at life, man.
Sega, on the other hand was losing money for years leading up to the Dreamcast's demise. The problem wasn't just the Dreamcast, the problem was Sega. They had lost a lot on previous consoles as well.
Well, the main problem was that Sega's first party games just weren't selling worth a damn, and they were releasing game upon game upon game. The only third party developers the Dreamcast had of any note in the US were Capcom (who was the main third party), SNK (which released a lot of their Neo-Geo fighting games on the Dreamcast), Treasure (which does localizations of Japanese titles, which end up being for a hardcore niche audience) and UbiSoft, which seemed to port their games to anything with a power button at the time. Other than a few harcore gamers that like the heavy Japanese influence, and/or who didn't want to wait for the PS2 to come out, Sega's flood of titles just didn't click with people in the US.
And Sega's still got that problem. See also: almost all of it's releases since it gave up on the Dreamcast. The Sonic games do respectably well on the GameCube. Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2 have gotten acclaim, but I'm not sure on actual sales numbers for them. Their PS2 releases have been flops (Shinobi was WAY too hard for Americans generally looking for a rehash of their classic game, not a hardcore psycho beatemup, Gungrave had insane graphics but a lot of Americans seem to have deep seated issues with cell shading, and the game just wasn't that deep, can't offhand recall any other Sega releases for PS2) On Xbox they've done only a little better. JSRF was crap compared to the original. Panzer Dragoon? Yeah, I played Rebel Assault a long time ago, I don't need to fly on a rail anymore. Good gods, they were recently reduced to being a hired gun for Nintendo, shopping out their Monkey Ball developers to do F-Zero GX, as apparently they're the only developres in their stable that can make a game that will appeal to more than just the Japanese market.
"why don't you try living in Southern California on the salary that these folks in Russia are getting"
Why don't you move to a part of the country where you can both find work at a lower salary, and support yourself. If you can't survive on what you're able to make in LA, you'd better get another job and deal with it, or move. End of fucking list. You have no right to make enough money to live where you want. Most of the rest of the world doesn't even have the ability to choose, if you lose that ability, too damn bad. Be happy you were able to for awhile.
Well, if it's that or sell your house anyways so your kids don't starve because you can't find a job at the ridiculously inflated salary you were pulling down during the dot.bomb era and are continuing to demand, then well, I'd probably pick India.
A few relevant issues: Since the recent DMCA exemptions created by the Library of Congress, Nintendo's claim that "You're not allowed to play roms you own," is only valid for the GBA, since the Gameboy and Gameboy Color are both legally considered obsolete.
Actually, by the definition linked to, GBC and GB are NOT LEGALLY OBSOLETE because their games can both be played on the GBA. I have GBC games I still play on my GBA, and original black & white Gameboy games work fine on a GBA. The NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, possibly the N64, et al do fall under the DMCA exception clause because I can't go buy a SNES system to put it in anymore save save on the dicey used hardware market.
Privacy advocates are cautioning that making background-check software a consumer product could easily put personal information into the wrong hands.
OK, what planet have these "privacy advocates" been living on? Could easily put? Hasn't personal information been in the wrong hands already for years now? Hell, forget buying software, all you've needed for YEARS has been $100 or so, and you can get your hands on whatever personal information you want on almost whoever you want, from any number of private investigation companies, online and offline.
Haven't they seen Roujin Z?!?!? Have the Japanese forgot their future history so quickly?! My gods, next thing you know the Japanese military will be putting Third Generation computers in them and all HELL is going to break loose! Have they gone mad?!
They can't sue SCO for copyright violation, because what they're selling isn't Linux. They're running a protection racket, saying that they won't sue you for using Linux if you pay them. If I have IP in Linux, I can't sue SCO for taking money from people in exchange for telling those people they won't sue them for using IP they claim to own in Linux. They aren't infringing on my IP unless they're distributing Linux (which AFAIK they FINALLY stopped doing).
I own a GameCube and I concur that I prefer the Cube's controller to just about any other controller I've used. The Playstation controller makes my hands ache after not long playing, but the GameCube controller I can play with for long periods of time with no pain at all. It's enough of a difference that I've searched out GameCube versions of games instead of the PS2 versions just so I can play them generally pain free.
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If they are blacklisted, it means they are hosting spammers and this (customers like you putting pressure on them) is the only way to get them to clean up their act.
For way too many people their current ISP is their only choice, and the people who are most likely to complain are the "power users" that most ISPs would love to get rid of in order to lower their bandwidth costs. I fail to see what complaining will do. What in the world do you have to threaten them with? Making their lives easier?
He'd have to REALLY be desperate to grab for one night spending someone else's money (which ALWAYS impresses the chicks...hey wait...) as some kind of silver bullet to happiness. Take the PS2, and wait for someone real to come along.
Unless you already had a PS2 of course, and all expenses paid REALLY MEANS all expenses paid... There are some DAMN find sushi restaurants in San Francisco that I'd love to patronize on someone else's dime. If she wants to come along and just have some good food, some drinks, and shoot the shit, sure whatever. Matter of fact, that'd probably be the most likely situation for something starting up. Someone who's secure and not worrying about starting a relationship is far more attractive than someone desperate not to fuck up and is walking on eggshells. Can't have fun at all with someone like that.
For the rest of you, what's it going to take to make you people happy?
The proverbial free lunch? Some people just feel they have a right to whatever they want. *shrugs*
This is one of the most ridiculous self-martyrdom acts I've ever heard. Good riddance to her resignation. Linux is a "natural resource". It's lying around waiting for people to develop it and make it useful for a purpose. It's like getting angry at steel foundries because the military vehicles in Iraq are made of steel, or Kellogs because the military buys Shredded Wheat to send over to Iraq to feed American troops.
Linux, and the GPL primarily, are not for this woman, and those who hold her "you can use this software in any way you want except the ways I don't want you do" view. May I suggest hacking up FreeBSD and releasing it under a license that specifically prohibits government use. Or possibly Microsoft Windows, seeing as the management at Microsoft holds quite simmilar views about controlling what you, I, or anyone else can do with their software.
Yes. I want the IP rights protected by the GPL protected, so however much I dislike Microsoft, what's good for the goose is certainly good for the gander.
You've obviously never heard of War In Heaven then, eh?
the lesson is not "stay out of banks", but "don't rob banks"
You don't mind metal detectors at the movie theater? Thanks but no thanks. I deal with it at the airport 'cause sometimes I have to fly. I deal with it at government buildings because sometimes I have to deal with the government. I won't deal with it at the movies because I don't have to see them. I'm not going to take the swiss army knife off my keychain just so I don't get hassled while going into a theater. I don't know about you, but I generally don't go to a theater where I need to be protected from people packing heat.
No, the lesson, at least for me, is certainly "don't go to movie theaters anymore".
These geniuses picked the name "Phantom". Their parents didn't pick good names either.
Yeah, it's made me wonder many a time if this wasn't a scam from second one. Kind of like calling your law firm, "Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe."
It's even a male who wrote it.
And just because a man wrote it, that means it's instantly not polarizing, no matter what it says, and it's automatically considered rational, well thought out, enlightened criticism, regardless of actual merit.
Sure. Pull the other one. It's got bells on.
How many times are videogame companies going to expect people to dish out money for the same exact games?
Probably as long as those games ported from older systems continue to be among the biggest selling GBA games. Hell, that's why I got a GBA, to be able to play all the older classic games without needing to deal with ROMs. Fully half, at least, of my GBA collection is remade SNES/NES games.
How long before the moderates speak out against this assault? How long before they act?
You'll be waiting for a lot longer than you want to, because moderates are moderates. Moderates are people who generally want to get on with their lives and don't want to have to deal with politics or politicians. They just want to be able to do their shit and not get in anyone else's way, or have anyone get in their way. You'll never see a moderate organization going after something because that would require them being...well...not moderate.
One package.
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Works like a charm, does everything for you. I found burning CDs under Linux impossible until I found that package, and now I don't bother with rebooting into Windows to burn them.
Are you upset because they made a kick ass game or something?
No, I never said anything of the sort. I said that they apparently have only a single development studio that can produce games with mass appeal in the US, without hanging on for dear life to Sonic and company. I personally like most of the games Sega makes, but that has nothing to do with them obviously hitting the skids as far as generally making money is concerned. They can't survive on just me.
Also, to anyone who says F-Zero GX is hard.
Who said anything one way or the other?
If you seriously complained about how hard this game is, you FUCKING SUCK AT VIDEO GAMES.
You posting this serves pretty clear notice to me that whomever you are, troll or no, you fucking suck at life, man.
Sega, on the other hand was losing money for years leading up to the Dreamcast's demise. The problem wasn't just the Dreamcast, the problem was Sega. They had lost a lot on previous consoles as well.
Well, the main problem was that Sega's first party games just weren't selling worth a damn, and they were releasing game upon game upon game. The only third party developers the Dreamcast had of any note in the US were Capcom (who was the main third party), SNK (which released a lot of their Neo-Geo fighting games on the Dreamcast), Treasure (which does localizations of Japanese titles, which end up being for a hardcore niche audience) and UbiSoft, which seemed to port their games to anything with a power button at the time. Other than a few harcore gamers that like the heavy Japanese influence, and/or who didn't want to wait for the PS2 to come out, Sega's flood of titles just didn't click with people in the US.
And Sega's still got that problem. See also: almost all of it's releases since it gave up on the Dreamcast. The Sonic games do respectably well on the GameCube. Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2 have gotten acclaim, but I'm not sure on actual sales numbers for them. Their PS2 releases have been flops (Shinobi was WAY too hard for Americans generally looking for a rehash of their classic game, not a hardcore psycho beatemup, Gungrave had insane graphics but a lot of Americans seem to have deep seated issues with cell shading, and the game just wasn't that deep, can't offhand recall any other Sega releases for PS2) On Xbox they've done only a little better. JSRF was crap compared to the original. Panzer Dragoon? Yeah, I played Rebel Assault a long time ago, I don't need to fly on a rail anymore. Good gods, they were recently reduced to being a hired gun for Nintendo, shopping out their Monkey Ball developers to do F-Zero GX, as apparently they're the only developres in their stable that can make a game that will appeal to more than just the Japanese market.
"why don't you try living in Southern California on the salary that these folks in Russia are getting"
Why don't you move to a part of the country where you can both find work at a lower salary, and support yourself. If you can't survive on what you're able to make in LA, you'd better get another job and deal with it, or move. End of fucking list. You have no right to make enough money to live where you want. Most of the rest of the world doesn't even have the ability to choose, if you lose that ability, too damn bad. Be happy you were able to for awhile.
Well, if it's that or sell your house anyways so your kids don't starve because you can't find a job at the ridiculously inflated salary you were pulling down during the dot.bomb era and are continuing to demand, then well, I'd probably pick India.
A few relevant issues: Since the recent DMCA exemptions created by the Library of Congress, Nintendo's claim that "You're not allowed to play roms you own," is only valid for the GBA, since the Gameboy and Gameboy Color are both legally considered obsolete.
Actually, by the definition linked to, GBC and GB are NOT LEGALLY OBSOLETE because their games can both be played on the GBA. I have GBC games I still play on my GBA, and original black & white Gameboy games work fine on a GBA. The NES, SNES, Genesis, Master System, possibly the N64, et al do fall under the DMCA exception clause because I can't go buy a SNES system to put it in anymore save save on the dicey used hardware market.
Microsoft will have stabbed themselves in the stomach, and enjoy a long painful death as Linux just plain wins.
Privacy advocates are cautioning that making background-check software a consumer product could easily put personal information into the wrong hands.
OK, what planet have these "privacy advocates" been living on? Could easily put? Hasn't personal information been in the wrong hands already for years now? Hell, forget buying software, all you've needed for YEARS has been $100 or so, and you can get your hands on whatever personal information you want on almost whoever you want, from any number of private investigation companies, online and offline.
Just a couple examples:
Background Check International's fee structure
Checkmate.com's fee structure
BackgroundFile background check software
Many many more, this was just the first few I found on a google search. Choice Point is just jumping on the gravy train. Whooptie do.
Haven't they seen Roujin Z?!?!? Have the Japanese forgot their future history so quickly?! My gods, next thing you know the Japanese military will be putting Third Generation computers in them and all HELL is going to break loose! Have they gone mad?!
They can't sue SCO for copyright violation, because what they're selling isn't Linux. They're running a protection racket, saying that they won't sue you for using Linux if you pay them. If I have IP in Linux, I can't sue SCO for taking money from people in exchange for telling those people they won't sue them for using IP they claim to own in Linux. They aren't infringing on my IP unless they're distributing Linux (which AFAIK they FINALLY stopped doing).
I own a GameCube and I concur that I prefer the Cube's controller to just about any other controller I've used. The Playstation controller makes my hands ache after not long playing, but the GameCube controller I can play with for long periods of time with no pain at all. It's enough of a difference that I've searched out GameCube versions of games instead of the PS2 versions just so I can play them generally pain free.
You're thinking of Super Mario 3. The original had no warp whistles. Just secret pipes.
It'd be a movement. It'd be the Alice's Restaurant Get Rid Of The Santa Cruz Operation Forever Movement.
"Frankly, I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands."
Hey, Budweiser, if you're watching, I buy your beer NEVER. Because it sucks.