I'd subscribe to such a model, although 20 a month seems a bit steep. At $400 for the console (rounded wet-finger average), and an expected life of, say, 5 years, you'd come to $6.66 per month. No, that wasn't intentional, by the way. Must be Sony's aura.
A model I'd like even more, would be based on actual playtime. Better for the smalltime gamer like me, and while the hardcore gamers would pay more, that might translate into, for example, a bit more say in the direction the console/PSN/whatever feature goes.
Then again, why would they, if they can screw you harder and deeper like this ?
I'm sure it could be argued that unless I can buy the machine without any software installed (useless as it might be), the software that was on it at time of purchase is part of that purchase.
Any updates pulled in and agreed to later may be theirs, but what was on it originally is mine, and I should be free do do with it as I want, including reading out keys and whatnot.
"Knowingly put out" ? They added a number of patches, and found that there's a problem with one of them.
Your local newspaper doesn't pre-publish beta versions of tomorrow's paper, does it ? But, if it did, and you pick up a copy of what you *know* is a beta, and it has an error, will you react the same way, even though they'll correct the error before final print ?
If this bug turns up in the final release, *then* you'll have reason to bitch. Until then, everyone who decides to run Lucid knows they're running pre-production quality.
If I had modpoints you would now be at 5, Informative.
This is how things are when you're shifting your country from hellhole to modern: you can't help but pass through the "underpaid and overworked people" phase. In due time, they, too, will be pressuring the government for reforms, and in the end they'll be on par with us. Another nation will take their place.
Hell, maybe they'll surpass us, and we will one day again be the backward place that needs better working conditions.
It's called Handbrake, and exists for all three major desktop OSes. Insert disk, click title you want, click "rip".
There's also something called makemkv, which is even simpler: insert disk, click "rip". It automatically rips every title longer than 10 minutes with every available sound and sub track to mkv. The downside to that one, is that it does no scaling - the rips can be large.
If everone acts like you and goes for the antibiotics every time their ass hurts, by now there wouldn't have been any antibiotics sufficiently effective to save your kid.
Yeah, your kid could've died. Medicine isn't IT, humans don't have logfiles to find out what's wrong. It's a delicate balancing act, and the occasional failure to administer antibiotics on time is the unfortunate price we pay to keep them effective for as long as possible. If you're not willing to take part in that price, maybe you shouldn't be getting any antibiotics at all.
You may complain all you want about the Belgian healthcare system - and, yes, I'm Belgian too - but it seems to me that given how you appear to treat your doctors, you're lucky to get any of it at all. I wish I could give you a way to opt out of it, it'd be interesting to see wether or not you would and how you'd fare.
Oh, and if the fever dropped within 15 minutes of administering the medicine, I suspect what you got was mostly anti-fever medicine, not just antibiotics. Guess the second doctor thought it best to just prescribe something so you'd calm the fuck down.
You may have a very good point, there: the player most likely to have the deciding vote on what 3D tech is "good enough" may well be the porn industry.
If I remember the fifteen minutes I spent on Red Steel correctly, that also separated vision from aim. I absolutely hated the game due to being a bitch to control. Not entirely sure if the separation was a cause, but I kicked it out regardless.
> Unless the article claims that the frequency of these genes is changing, then this cannot be considered 'evolution.'
If the frequency of these genes is changing fast enough for us to notice, I'd call it an epidemic, not evolution.
While it's true that the evolution of a species is defined by changes in gene frequency within the population, the mechanic through which this happens is random gene mutation in individuals, and gets tested for viability by the amount of reproduction that modification manages to facilitate in the long term.
We'll know if this is the direction we're heading a few thousand years from now:-)
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Insightful ? You should be modded troll.
"Not kept" is a far shot from "No decision, yet". Or ar you going to argue that on the day of his inauguration, 100% of his promises were "Not kept" ?
Bad head is better than none.
You left another typo, there.
> pretty suspicious even to the average idiot user.
Go see your doctor, you appear to be suffering from a bout of hopeless optimism complicated with unwarranted faith in mankind.
No, but we have and do travel to all ends of the planet to see what lives there. We're a rather curious species. Maybe they are, too.
At one point, it seemed hard to fly, or reach other continents. Hard things become much easier once they've been done before.
I'd subscribe to such a model, although 20 a month seems a bit steep. At $400 for the console (rounded wet-finger average), and an expected life of, say, 5 years, you'd come to $6.66 per month. No, that wasn't intentional, by the way. Must be Sony's aura.
A model I'd like even more, would be based on actual playtime. Better for the smalltime gamer like me, and while the hardcore gamers would pay more, that might translate into, for example, a bit more say in the direction the console/PSN/whatever feature goes.
Then again, why would they, if they can screw you harder and deeper like this ?
His wife may finally smile again, then.
I'm sure it could be argued that unless I can buy the machine without any software installed (useless as it might be), the software that was on it at time of purchase is part of that purchase.
Any updates pulled in and agreed to later may be theirs, but what was on it originally is mine, and I should be free do do with it as I want, including reading out keys and whatnot.
"Knowingly put out" ? They added a number of patches, and found that there's a problem with one of them.
Your local newspaper doesn't pre-publish beta versions of tomorrow's paper, does it ? But, if it did, and you pick up a copy of what you *know* is a beta, and it has an error, will you react the same way, even though they'll correct the error before final print ?
If this bug turns up in the final release, *then* you'll have reason to bitch. Until then, everyone who decides to run Lucid knows they're running pre-production quality.
Am I the only one who read the title wondering what Alan Cox has to do with Usenet ?
Well, he *is* watching Fox, you know.
I want my shiny purple lynx, you insensitive clod.
Technically true. However, most people - and especially the non-techie people this was about - equal "rip" with "play from harddisk".
If I had modpoints you would now be at 5, Informative.
This is how things are when you're shifting your country from hellhole to modern: you can't help but pass through the "underpaid and overworked people" phase. In due time, they, too, will be pressuring the government for reforms, and in the end they'll be on par with us. Another nation will take their place.
Hell, maybe they'll surpass us, and we will one day again be the backward place that needs better working conditions.
It's called Handbrake, and exists for all three major desktop OSes. Insert disk, click title you want, click "rip".
There's also something called makemkv, which is even simpler: insert disk, click "rip". It automatically rips every title longer than 10 minutes with every available sound and sub track to mkv. The downside to that one, is that it does no scaling - the rips can be large.
Yeah, pelts *and* flame-grilled rat, at the same time.
D@#% ? #33L ?
What are you, some kind of DAMN pc gnome from HELL ?
About your sig: you seem to be missing a slight nuance. "Ubuntu" means "I can't be bothered to spend my time configuring Debian"
If everone acts like you and goes for the antibiotics every time their ass hurts, by now there wouldn't have been any antibiotics sufficiently effective to save your kid.
Yeah, your kid could've died. Medicine isn't IT, humans don't have logfiles to find out what's wrong. It's a delicate balancing act, and the occasional failure to administer antibiotics on time is the unfortunate price we pay to keep them effective for as long as possible. If you're not willing to take part in that price, maybe you shouldn't be getting any antibiotics at all.
You may complain all you want about the Belgian healthcare system - and, yes, I'm Belgian too - but it seems to me that given how you appear to treat your doctors, you're lucky to get any of it at all. I wish I could give you a way to opt out of it, it'd be interesting to see wether or not you would and how you'd fare.
Oh, and if the fever dropped within 15 minutes of administering the medicine, I suspect what you got was mostly anti-fever medicine, not just antibiotics. Guess the second doctor thought it best to just prescribe something so you'd calm the fuck down.
Because they're experimenting on us, the bastards.
It was close enough.
You may have a very good point, there: the player most likely to have the deciding vote on what 3D tech is "good enough" may well be the porn industry.
If I remember the fifteen minutes I spent on Red Steel correctly, that also separated vision from aim. I absolutely hated the game due to being a bitch to control. Not entirely sure if the separation was a cause, but I kicked it out regardless.
If you watch cycling, you know that it tends to involve a lot of falling down, at times :-)
> Unless the article claims that the frequency of these genes is changing, then this cannot be considered 'evolution.'
:-)
If the frequency of these genes is changing fast enough for us to notice, I'd call it an epidemic, not evolution.
While it's true that the evolution of a species is defined by changes in gene frequency within the population, the mechanic through which this happens is random gene mutation in individuals, and gets tested for viability by the amount of reproduction that modification manages to facilitate in the long term.
We'll know if this is the direction we're heading a few thousand years from now