Yeah, that's a great idea. Why don't they buy DoubleClick and turn it into a bakery. Everyone likes bread!
Presumably they'd be buying DoubleClick because it has value.. maybe they're just after their customer list, but more likely they're of the opinion that DoubleClick is doing some good business.
I used to think there was no way to fix cheating.. then I realised that, once again, we're trying to solve a social problem with a technical solution. So I thought about it from a social perspective.
Imagine you're playing a FPS on a commercial server. You're actually paying money for this experience. Someone keeps headshotting you. They seem to never miss. It's really pissing you off, so what do you do? For most games the answer is: go play on another server, but what if there was an alternative? What if there was a form on the web page where you could file a complaint. Enter the guy's name, the time you were playing and that he was headshotting people and never seemed to miss.
The customer support people get a bunch of these complaints.. what do they do? As we've said, it is very hard to tell if the guy is cheating or if he's just really good at head shots. So even though the customer support people can see in the logs that he got a whole shitload of head shots, they can't really say he was cheating.
Ya know what? Who cares! If there are enough complaints against a player, regardless of whether he was cheating or not, that player is having a detrimental effect on customer experience. If you let this player continue with his head shot firing spree, he will destroy your game. The customer support staff should warn the player that he is making too many head shots and this is pissing off customers. If he doesn't cut back, he will be banned. Eventually the message will get around that excessive head shots, either because you're cheating or because you're good at them, is unacceptable behaviour and they will stop.
This is similar to the/kick command that many Counterstrike servers have.. except that it demands that customers make an actual complaint and give a good reason.
Huh? I wouldn't punch him in the nose for disagreeing with me? How'd you get that? I'd punch him in the nose for being rude. And I don't think I'm out of line to do that. What happened to courtesy?
No. I think the current "crisis" is just people finally coming to realise what they should have known all along: we live in a dynamic environment which is [currently] beyond our control. Why in the world they think they can control it by sticking their head back in the sand is beyond me.. but I don't believe we are being "arrogant" or just engaging in wishful thinking by believing that we should be able to control our environment.
There are some others who believe we should abandon the earth and build static environments to live in.. in the form of O'Neil space stations. To them I say: don't give up yoru home so easily.
The engineers of the Apollo era were motivated by the same thing that motivates geeks today. The fact that rivalry was needed to get the politicians to pay the geeks to do what they do so well is irrelevant. If an international agreement for funding of intelligent climate management was signed, the geeks would work just as well.
So, is me and a mate sharing an account considered priracy? It's not like you're restricted to one character. I know at least a few MMOs that don't even prohibit simultanious logins..
Almost all MMOs that require a boxed product don't do any "CD Key" checking.. it's all based on the account.
A switch to making energy a touch more expensive and human labour a touch less so. So your solution to environmental problems is to enslave the human race. Great stuff.
No. You're wrong. Reducing individual energy usage has a much shorter name.. I wish people would use it instead of trying to pull the wool over other people's eyes. That word? Poverty. I can imagine that 50 years from now we'll have working nuclear fusion reactors or 100% efficient solar collectors and no-one will be allowed to use the power because the conservationists have so demonized energy usage and all the little people are huddling in mud huts.
People don't want to change, and they won't yet. Ya know what scares me? Even geeks, the very people who should be touting a technical solution to environmental problems, are saying crap like this now. Regardless of what Al Gore says, giving up our cars will not save the planet. Packing up our stuff and going to live in a tree is nothing but luddite logic. The only solution to climate change and other environmental problems is activate management using technology. That is, engineering on a global scale.
We need an international Apollo style program to control climate change.
In the US, abolishing copyright would probably mean amending the constitution. I stopped reading your comment there. The consistution of the US clearly makes copyright optional.
A market requires actual money to be changing hands. As such, RedHat, Novell and Linspire are about the only ones in "the market" of selling a distribution. Add Canonical if you want to talk about the support market.
On the other hand, the insane amount of fragmentation we've seen in the "screw you guys, I'm starting my own distro" space has nothing to do with market forces and everything to do with geek egos.
Any good that copyright serves is negated by the insanity of current terms and the restrictions on everyday practices. If we were to scale back the terms and remove the restrictions, the result would be so different from copyright as it exists today as to be copyright in name only.
Yep, cause we aint bleeding heart enough about people already.. now they can be bleeding heart about the neocortical simulation running on a microcontroller in my toaster.
Well yes, obviously if the contract says you will not copy the discs then you can be sued for breach of contract if you do.. but how could they ever find out? It's just like those hotels that say you can't have guests staying in the room with you, or a lease on an apartment which says you can't sublease or have pets..
The people who clean my office walk around with a vacuum cleaner on their back and a cord trailing behind. I wonder if this will ever catch on for household use. It's surely a lot more practical than dragging the vacuum cleaner along behind you.
If you rent a movie, are you allowed to watch it twice?
I say, of course you are.
If those two times you want to watch the movie are 6 months apart, should you have to rent the movie for 6 months?
Of course not.
So why do you have to pay to watch the movie twice if you want to watch it 6 months after the first time you watched it when you don't have to pay twice if you want to watch it twice on the same day.
If you're going to compare your right to copy physical items to your right to copy works, why not go the whole hog?
If you like my chair and ask me if you can make a copy, should I refuse?
Should it be illegal for me to allow you to make the copy?
Does the existance of an autocarpenter make a difference?
We have a right to copy. The law of copyright is ment to be a deal.. we give up our right to copy and the creators get a short incentive to make productive works. I don't like this deal anymore.. I want out. Who's with me?
Umm.. ok. Thanks for the tips. I'm trying to see the relevance to my sig.. which is about a website for making tar.gz files from rpm files.. I really am trying..
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Yeah, that's a great idea. Why don't they buy DoubleClick and turn it into a bakery. Everyone likes bread!
Presumably they'd be buying DoubleClick because it has value.. maybe they're just after their customer list, but more likely they're of the opinion that DoubleClick is doing some good business.
I used to think there was no way to fix cheating.. then I realised that, once again, we're trying to solve a social problem with a technical solution. So I thought about it from a social perspective.
/kick command that many Counterstrike servers have.. except that it demands that customers make an actual complaint and give a good reason.
Imagine you're playing a FPS on a commercial server. You're actually paying money for this experience. Someone keeps headshotting you. They seem to never miss. It's really pissing you off, so what do you do? For most games the answer is: go play on another server, but what if there was an alternative? What if there was a form on the web page where you could file a complaint. Enter the guy's name, the time you were playing and that he was headshotting people and never seemed to miss.
The customer support people get a bunch of these complaints.. what do they do? As we've said, it is very hard to tell if the guy is cheating or if he's just really good at head shots. So even though the customer support people can see in the logs that he got a whole shitload of head shots, they can't really say he was cheating.
Ya know what? Who cares! If there are enough complaints against a player, regardless of whether he was cheating or not, that player is having a detrimental effect on customer experience. If you let this player continue with his head shot firing spree, he will destroy your game. The customer support staff should warn the player that he is making too many head shots and this is pissing off customers. If he doesn't cut back, he will be banned. Eventually the message will get around that excessive head shots, either because you're cheating or because you're good at them, is unacceptable behaviour and they will stop.
This is similar to the
They'll just redefine the activities of DoubleClick to not be evil. That's the great thing about that slogan.. you can redefine "evil" at will.
Huh? I wouldn't punch him in the nose for disagreeing with me? How'd you get that? I'd punch him in the nose for being rude. And I don't think I'm out of line to do that. What happened to courtesy?
Do you feel like a big man insulting someone you've never met?
Why are people on Slashdot so rude? If we were talking in person I'd punch you in the nose.
Grow up.
No. I think the current "crisis" is just people finally coming to realise what they should have known all along: we live in a dynamic environment which is [currently] beyond our control. Why in the world they think they can control it by sticking their head back in the sand is beyond me.. but I don't believe we are being "arrogant" or just engaging in wishful thinking by believing that we should be able to control our environment.
There are some others who believe we should abandon the earth and build static environments to live in.. in the form of O'Neil space stations. To them I say: don't give up yoru home so easily.
The engineers of the Apollo era were motivated by the same thing that motivates geeks today. The fact that rivalry was needed to get the politicians to pay the geeks to do what they do so well is irrelevant. If an international agreement for funding of intelligent climate management was signed, the geeks would work just as well.
So, is me and a mate sharing an account considered priracy? It's not like you're restricted to one character. I know at least a few MMOs that don't even prohibit simultanious logins..
Almost all MMOs that require a boxed product don't do any "CD Key" checking.. it's all based on the account.
No. You're wrong. Reducing individual energy usage has a much shorter name.. I wish people would use it instead of trying to pull the wool over other people's eyes. That word? Poverty. I can imagine that 50 years from now we'll have working nuclear fusion reactors or 100% efficient solar collectors and no-one will be allowed to use the power because the conservationists have so demonized energy usage and all the little people are huddling in mud huts.
We need an international Apollo style program to control climate change.
Werd. Too many people in this world ask, nah beg, for permission to do things where if they were to just do it, no-one would care.
A market requires actual money to be changing hands. As such, RedHat, Novell and Linspire are about the only ones in "the market" of selling a distribution. Add Canonical if you want to talk about the support market.
On the other hand, the insane amount of fragmentation we've seen in the "screw you guys, I'm starting my own distro" space has nothing to do with market forces and everything to do with geek egos.
Any good that copyright serves is negated by the insanity of current terms and the restrictions on everyday practices. If we were to scale back the terms and remove the restrictions, the result would be so different from copyright as it exists today as to be copyright in name only.
I know I haven't. Fragmentation++
Yep, cause we aint bleeding heart enough about people already.. now they can be bleeding heart about the neocortical simulation running on a microcontroller in my toaster.
Well yes, obviously if the contract says you will not copy the discs then you can be sued for breach of contract if you do.. but how could they ever find out? It's just like those hotels that say you can't have guests staying in the room with you, or a lease on an apartment which says you can't sublease or have pets..
The people who clean my office walk around with a vacuum cleaner on their back and a cord trailing behind. I wonder if this will ever catch on for household use. It's surely a lot more practical than dragging the vacuum cleaner along behind you.
If you rent a movie, are you allowed to watch it twice?
I say, of course you are.
If those two times you want to watch the movie are 6 months apart, should you have to rent the movie for 6 months?
Of course not.
So why do you have to pay to watch the movie twice if you want to watch it 6 months after the first time you watched it when you don't have to pay twice if you want to watch it twice on the same day.
If you're going to compare your right to copy physical items to your right to copy works, why not go the whole hog?
If you like my chair and ask me if you can make a copy, should I refuse?
Should it be illegal for me to allow you to make the copy?
Does the existance of an autocarpenter make a difference?
We have a right to copy. The law of copyright is ment to be a deal.. we give up our right to copy and the creators get a short incentive to make productive works. I don't like this deal anymore.. I want out. Who's with me?
Go buy On Intelligence for a great perspective on what "understanding" is and how the neocortex works.
Umm.. ok. Thanks for the tips. I'm trying to see the relevance to my sig.. which is about a website for making tar.gz files from rpm files.. I really am trying..