Your lack of right to do that does not imply the child's right not to have that done to them. I have no right to burn my house down but it doesn't imply that houses have rights.
Right to safety? Huh? I'm not aware of any such right and I'm a freakin' adult. Right to free speech? No, children can and are often told to shut up, and rightly so as a talking child learns nothing. Freedom of religion, don't make me laugh. Right to education? Umm, no, I'd more say that every parent has a right and responsibility to educate their children. The child has no rights.
We don't assign rights to people based on their physiology. There's a purpose to restricting the rights of children - it's so they can learn to recognise and value them. If you give a child the rights of an adult you create an adult with no concept of responsibility.
Bravo. People who think parents should "respect their children's privacy" clearly have no concept of parenting. Unfortunately, neither do 99% of parents, which is why one should have to obtain sufficient training and receive a license to have offspring. Either that or hire a full time professional caregiver.
Yep, and that's why voice chat makes no sense for Fantasy RPGs. On the other hand, it is absolutely stupid not to have voice chat built into a game like The Matrix Online. I'd actually like to play a MMORPG that supplies no alternative to voice chat. You either use voice chat or you don't freakin' talk.
I don't get it, children don't have rights, they never have, they never will, because as soon as you give children rights they're not longer children. When you turn 18 you become an adult. That means you have rights and hopefully those 18 years of your life leading up to that point have taught you what it means to not have rights and you value the rights you receive when you become an adult enough that you'll defend them. Wanna know why people don't value their rights and as a result our society is going to shit? Have a look at how people have raised children in the last 20 years. They've basically treated them like responsibility free adults. Is it any wonder that when these children become adults they don't value their rights and refuse to accept responsibility?
Yeah, you're missing something. That something is non-free software. People don't buy open source solutions because they can get non-free solutions for no cost (be it via "shareware" or "freeware" or via "warez"). As such, people don't think about supporting a company that is doing the "last mile" work on open source software so it is consumable by the general public.
It's a shame that you need a government mandate to get people to do what is in their own best interest these days. Just goes to show that we've all stopped being rational consumers.
Most of the time the point is just "fun". We don't do this to serve you, we do it for our own enjoyment. However, sometimes the point is "to get stuff done". In which case we do just enough to the job done and then we put up what we've got so others don't have to start from scratch. If you need more than my bare minimum then I expect you to code what you need, not come whining back to me that I didn't do what you need. The alternative is to start from scratch, so I think you should consider yourself lucky that I went to the bother of putting my stuff out there (and it is a bother).
Ultimately, if you can't take open source and tailor it to your own needs then you need to either put up or shut up. Either put up code or cash to get it to do what you want or shut up and use what you've been given.
On the other hand, if you've already paid someone for some open source software feel free to bitch and moan to that person as much as you like. Feel free to tell everyone that person didn't supply you what you paid them to supply you.
The purpose of the CD key when there is no product activation is to tag the software so that when Microsoft sends their storm troopers around to check licenses they can go from computer to computer and write down the key that is embedded in the software. So if you're gunna warez their software and get inspected then you'd better come up with a keygen and print up fake media. Then you better hope that Microsoft doesn't go lookup that key in their database and see that it is being used at another site or (worse yet) was never even entered into the database.
There is a point to these things, they just don't make any sense to you because you think small fry.
Sorry about the spelling. The fact that you go use non-free alternatives (and warez!) is exactly what I'm talking about. Instead of supporting the companies that are trying to commercialise open source for regular users, you go and freeload some more. As such, I doubt you'll hear too many open source developers whining about you not using their software. You're more likely to hear all the makers of the non-free alternatives complaining that you're a cheapskate.
Blah, and buniness that want to service their customers are free to take that open source application and slap a user friendly UI on it. The problem comes when users whine at open source developers to do this instead of putting up their hand (and their cash) when buniness comes calling. The problem is freeloaders.
There's only like a million options to choose from. Why don't you become a BeOS fanatic, or an Amiga fanatic? Why not tote that brilliance that is QNX? Really, the pissing contest between Windows and Linux is hardly the only game in town.
Yeah, I don't see why the loading area needs to be a different resolution to the game.. but that's hardly a bug. Personally, I play in a window so all I see is a window size change. Levelling gets harder the more levels you go up. I've reported bugs like "code analyser doesn't retain where my current selection is between invokations" to which they've replied that they'll get around to. The code compiler tool doesn't center the model for the object you are working on either. There's no major bugs, but there is trivial stuff.
Well duh, that's why it's called a beta. No-one can tell you if a game is good, you have to go play it for yourself. Find a friend who has the game and ask them nicely for a go. If you'd done this a week ago you could have gotten a Friends and Family Promotion key from them and installed a trial version of the game.
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Your lack of right to do that does not imply the child's right not to have that done to them. I have no right to burn my house down but it doesn't imply that houses have rights.
Right to safety? Huh? I'm not aware of any such right and I'm a freakin' adult. Right to free speech? No, children can and are often told to shut up, and rightly so as a talking child learns nothing. Freedom of religion, don't make me laugh. Right to education? Umm, no, I'd more say that every parent has a right and responsibility to educate their children. The child has no rights.
We don't assign rights to people based on their physiology. There's a purpose to restricting the rights of children - it's so they can learn to recognise and value them. If you give a child the rights of an adult you create an adult with no concept of responsibility.
I can't beleive you are advocating that parents shouldn't monitor what their 12yo child eats or what their 17yo child looks at on the Internet. Jesus.
Uhhh, I'd go a bit further than saying that monitoring their children is a parent's right, I'd say it's their god damn responsibility.
Bravo. People who think parents should "respect their children's privacy" clearly have no concept of parenting. Unfortunately, neither do 99% of parents, which is why one should have to obtain sufficient training and receive a license to have offspring. Either that or hire a full time professional caregiver.
As a person who grew up with no rights until they reached their 18th birthday I find your accusation personally attacking.
Yep, and that's why voice chat makes no sense for Fantasy RPGs. On the other hand, it is absolutely stupid not to have voice chat built into a game like The Matrix Online. I'd actually like to play a MMORPG that supplies no alternative to voice chat. You either use voice chat or you don't freakin' talk.
I don't get it, children don't have rights, they never have, they never will, because as soon as you give children rights they're not longer children. When you turn 18 you become an adult. That means you have rights and hopefully those 18 years of your life leading up to that point have taught you what it means to not have rights and you value the rights you receive when you become an adult enough that you'll defend them. Wanna know why people don't value their rights and as a result our society is going to shit? Have a look at how people have raised children in the last 20 years. They've basically treated them like responsibility free adults. Is it any wonder that when these children become adults they don't value their rights and refuse to accept responsibility?
sounds good to me.
Uhh, so what you're saying is all you've got circled so far is "parent's bedroom"?
Do tell, why? Are you trying to suggest that Microsoft (and every other major software company) doesn't inspect businesses and audit licenses?
Yeah, you're missing something. That something is non-free software. People don't buy open source solutions because they can get non-free solutions for no cost (be it via "shareware" or "freeware" or via "warez"). As such, people don't think about supporting a company that is doing the "last mile" work on open source software so it is consumable by the general public.
It's a shame that you need a government mandate to get people to do what is in their own best interest these days. Just goes to show that we've all stopped being rational consumers.
Most of the time the point is just "fun". We don't do this to serve you, we do it for our own enjoyment. However, sometimes the point is "to get stuff done". In which case we do just enough to the job done and then we put up what we've got so others don't have to start from scratch. If you need more than my bare minimum then I expect you to code what you need, not come whining back to me that I didn't do what you need. The alternative is to start from scratch, so I think you should consider yourself lucky that I went to the bother of putting my stuff out there (and it is a bother).
Ultimately, if you can't take open source and tailor it to your own needs then you need to either put up or shut up. Either put up code or cash to get it to do what you want or shut up and use what you've been given.
On the other hand, if you've already paid someone for some open source software feel free to bitch and moan to that person as much as you like. Feel free to tell everyone that person didn't supply you what you paid them to supply you.
The purpose of the CD key when there is no product activation is to tag the software so that when Microsoft sends their storm troopers around to check licenses they can go from computer to computer and write down the key that is embedded in the software. So if you're gunna warez their software and get inspected then you'd better come up with a keygen and print up fake media. Then you better hope that Microsoft doesn't go lookup that key in their database and see that it is being used at another site or (worse yet) was never even entered into the database.
There is a point to these things, they just don't make any sense to you because you think small fry.
Sorry about the spelling. The fact that you go use non-free alternatives (and warez!) is exactly what I'm talking about. Instead of supporting the companies that are trying to commercialise open source for regular users, you go and freeload some more. As such, I doubt you'll hear too many open source developers whining about you not using their software. You're more likely to hear all the makers of the non-free alternatives complaining that you're a cheapskate.
Blah, and buniness that want to service their customers are free to take that open source application and slap a user friendly UI on it. The problem comes when users whine at open source developers to do this instead of putting up their hand (and their cash) when buniness comes calling. The problem is freeloaders.
That's cause they're idiots. But we were talking about Microsoft Windows which uses product activation.
There's only like a million options to choose from. Why don't you become a BeOS fanatic, or an Amiga fanatic? Why not tote that brilliance that is QNX? Really, the pissing contest between Windows and Linux is hardly the only game in town.
The fact that every desktop Linux box these days has a journalling filesystem and the great Microsoft operating systems don't is pretty funny.
Duh, that's what product activation is.
Yeah, I don't see why the loading area needs to be a different resolution to the game.. but that's hardly a bug. Personally, I play in a window so all I see is a window size change. Levelling gets harder the more levels you go up. I've reported bugs like "code analyser doesn't retain where my current selection is between invokations" to which they've replied that they'll get around to. The code compiler tool doesn't center the model for the object you are working on either. There's no major bugs, but there is trivial stuff.
No, but if you'd like to offer me money to post on Slashdot I'd be more than willing to accept your contribution.
Well duh, that's why it's called a beta. No-one can tell you if a game is good, you have to go play it for yourself. Find a friend who has the game and ask them nicely for a go. If you'd done this a week ago you could have gotten a Friends and Family Promotion key from them and installed a trial version of the game.