I'm not "on the bandwagon", but here are some honest criticisms:
Some sort of audio plays on your site, from the link you provided in your original post. That's a big no-no for me. It took me a second to figure out what the hell it was (with a few tabs open), at first I thought something was wrong with the audio feed I was already listening to. I paused that, and checked your site three times. It's definitely you.
Also, I have javascript enabled only for sites I allow. Audio playing despite that is not going to get me to turn javascript on in Noscript for your site.
You basically called me either an over-zealous privacy advocate or a pervert there, but the real reason is simple: Most uses of javascript are either unnecessary, stupid, irritating, or malevolent, and it's generally a combination of these.
Just to see what happened, I allowed javascript. The only change was that it offered to turn audio off. This should be the default option. Your apparent use of javascript falls under the first case above: unnecessary.
Also, the images behind your headers are nice enough, but the contrast with the text isn't pleasant.
Finally, threatening to take your ball and go home after being insulting isn't going to endear you to anyone.
Good luck to them getting anyone to buy a chair that won't let you go piss during the Pepsi ads... unless it comes with a funnel and a length of rubber hose.
Well if HIS site didn't have annoying ads people wouldn't have resorted to Adblock in the first place.
Flash ads, blinking/flashing ads, javascript and java ads (I forget which "punch the monkey" used), talking ads, pop ups, pop unders, ads that jump up and take over the whole site until you click an "X" on the ad itself -- these are the reasons I can think of offhand to block ads.
I don't have a problem with all ads. Many people don't. But those that interfere with my browsing are unacceptable. Period. I don't care who is paying the bandwidth.
if more did the same maybe studios would get the hint and stop giving this bozo money.
Or just blame piracy for the lack of money generated*. Boll isn't the only horrible filmmaker out there, he's just the (arguably) worst and he apparently revels in this sort of attention. I'm not sure why he picked video game movies as the genre to make worse. That's like deciding to make a worse version of ET for the 2600.
* But who would pirate a Uwe Boll movie, even with free unlimited bandwidth!?
It's pretty clear to me that he can only barely read. Expecting him to have a reasoned discourse with anyone is like expecting George Bush to pronounce nuclear correctly. It's just not going to happen. (Hint, George: There's ONE "u" in nuclear!)
I looked at some of his other posts, and pretty he's pretty much just a jackass. Or maybe I just feel like bitching at people on/. tonight, I can't be sure.
Well, since you stopped reading his post, allow me:
A patent troll is someone who simply files or acquires as many patents as possible IN ORDER to sue. Forgent is well known for this, I believe.
Oh, and he never called you a troll, it was an either/or situation, something most people understand after they mature a bit. Lighten up a bit... jackass. (note that you had to read my post to get that far)
He pulled you out of a class, did he? Seriously, what kind of anger disorder do you have that these posts on/. make you think threatening someone is okay, or even worse, "cool"? Tip: You don't look cool, you look like a mad little boy. Just like high school, no one is impressed with you.
There are ~200 people within several square miles of here. There are several dozen miles of roads.
See: Hurricane evacuations, especially last minute. It can take 24 hours to get 4 hours on major roadways.
Not that I like ISPs or their methods, or anything, just pointing out that the GP had a point about services being overloaded. The difference is in the presentation: My electric company doesn't advertise unlimited electricity. They barely advertise at all....Actually, I'm kind of curious why the hell cable, landline phone, and the electric company advertise at all... the water utility doesn't, and it has the same amount of competition.
and unlike copyright the limits on duration are not totally insane.
the limits didn't use to be insane on copyrights, either. They were originally fourteen years. I would have no object to copyright at that point: most every NES game, all 80s music, and every book written up to today's date in 1993 would be legally public domain.
Give it time for some chode to get patents made engineer's life plus ninety-nine years...
You feel disillusioned? Imagine how poor Twitter feels right now!
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Except this is a legal issue that could have affected him, and any other user of Linux, in a bad way. Unless you or someone you know is on the shows, I doubt they actually impact your life other than entertainment value. Also, he never said how much he reads Groklaw or used to read slashdot.
Honestly, this post was so unnecessary I'm guessing you got scoffed at for watching and getting emotional over a 'reality' show.;)
I've also introduced it to people, mostly when they have a problem brought on by IE. As far as I am aware, none of them has turned back. Most of them are college professors/students, though, and that may skew things. (Most are not, however, computer science people)
One big thing they should fix already: I don't care what their reasoning is, the memory "leak" is a problem. It should never swell up and take up over 150MB of RAM. Sure, some computers have RAM to spare -- the average person with a cheap computer does not. They aren't going to upgrade their RAM, either. Firefox ought to shoot for a smaller footprint so older computers can handle it and leave it running without bogging down.
Did the OP mention gun violence? No. Did the OP mention gun accidents? Yes. Did the reply mention gun violence statistics? No. Did the reply mention gun accident statistics? Yes.
Are gun violence deaths greater than gun accident deaths? Yes. Is this relevant to the discussion, OP, or the reply the AC replied to in a smarmy manner? No.
So no, I'm not confused, but I think you might be. Go back and read the original post, then Kadin's reply. The AC starts off calling him a smart ass for providing accurate gun ACCIDENT deaths. Which we've established as the original focus of the OC's comment.
You left off two parts of section 3., (b and c), which state:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
They're not required to do subsection a), which you quoted, just one of the three. But since they may just be including as opposed to selling Dosbox, subsection c) may well be acceptable. A lot of GPL'd software comes without the source -- many Linux distros don't include the source, either, but you can still get it. I'm pretty sure my copy of Ubuntu didn't come with source code, and I don't recall seeing an offer to get the source code during the install (but then who pays attention to license terms during an OS install?).
MICROSOFT was the company that paid big $$$ for exclusive content in GTA4.
Please cite.
Now that exclusive content is DELAYED. So the question should be "How will this affect Microsoft".
Except when the game comes out, MS and Sony will still be where they were before. The difference is that Sony will go another holiday season at a disadvantage, according to the OP.
Sony has a HUGE library of AAA exclusives coming out in the next 1-6 months so they will be fine.
Yes, we know. You tell us in every single thread. But they do not have BioShock (I know, there is PC version, some of us don't run Windows or want to upgrade a perfectly capable graphics card/RAM/etc which will all cost more than a 360 anyway), Mass Effect, Halo 3 (I know, the Sony troll response is IT LOOKS LAST GEN, save your keystrokes -- the game will still sell), Overlord (yes, a PC version, see earlier), Too Human -- except for Halo 3, all games I'm more interested in than Motorstorm and sports games. Also, they lost a few exclusives (if I recall correctly, Assassin's Creed was going to be), and Call of Duty: Airborne comes out for the 360 two months before the PS3 version -- and this is the first CoD game I've even been remotely interested in. See, I can list games, too.
The only exclusive Sony really has that interests me is Resistance: Fall of Man. And not enough to fork out $499 (or $599, or $399) plus the cost of the game. They may lose FF13, they lost launch exclusivity of GTA4 (which they had for VC and SA). I guess "they will be fine" means "they'll remain in third place."
When Nintendo used a crap format (N64 carts) they lost developers. We're talking about Nintendo here, an established presence at the time -- the NES and SNES had dominated their competition. Microsoft has sold a total of around 30 million consoles -- 20M X-Box, 10M 360s. Rounded, because I'm lazy and that's close enough. the N64 sold around that number. In addition, Nintendo actually did well in Japan, something Microsoft does not.
If MS's decision was actually hampering developers, they'd leave.
So take your whining somewhere the fuck else because it doesn't fit in with REALITY. Last gen, Sony had launch exclusivity for GTA:VC and GTA:SA. They lost that this generation. If anything, signs point to Sony pissing off Rockstar, not Microsoft. You never even back up things like:
And Rockstar has been publicly complaining about being forced to try to fit a free roaming city sized world into a smaller amount of space than last gen.
Where? I have no seen such a complaint -- and you'd think someone who hates MS enough to troll EVERY SINGLE GAMES POST might have a goddamn link handy for this. And don't tell me "MS is paying developers" unless you have a link for it. I love how everything MS does is shady or being paid for, but Sony is just this great consumer friendly corporation. I don't know what fairy tale land you live in, but in the world I live in, both companies fucking suck when it comes to the way they treat customers.
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I'm not "on the bandwagon", but here are some honest criticisms:
Some sort of audio plays on your site, from the link you provided in your original post. That's a big no-no for me. It took me a second to figure out what the hell it was (with a few tabs open), at first I thought something was wrong with the audio feed I was already listening to. I paused that, and checked your site three times. It's definitely you.
Also, I have javascript enabled only for sites I allow. Audio playing despite that is not going to get me to turn javascript on in Noscript for your site.
You basically called me either an over-zealous privacy advocate or a pervert there, but the real reason is simple: Most uses of javascript are either unnecessary, stupid, irritating, or malevolent, and it's generally a combination of these.
Just to see what happened, I allowed javascript. The only change was that it offered to turn audio off. This should be the default option. Your apparent use of javascript falls under the first case above: unnecessary.
Also, the images behind your headers are nice enough, but the contrast with the text isn't pleasant.
Finally, threatening to take your ball and go home after being insulting isn't going to endear you to anyone.
Good luck to them getting anyone to buy a chair that won't let you go piss during the Pepsi ads... unless it comes with a funnel and a length of rubber hose.
Which came first? The ad or the ad-blocker?
Uh. That's kind of obvious.
Well if HIS site didn't have annoying ads people wouldn't have resorted to Adblock in the first place.
Flash ads, blinking/flashing ads, javascript and java ads (I forget which "punch the monkey" used), talking ads, pop ups, pop unders, ads that jump up and take over the whole site until you click an "X" on the ad itself -- these are the reasons I can think of offhand to block ads.
I don't have a problem with all ads. Many people don't. But those that interfere with my browsing are unacceptable. Period. I don't care who is paying the bandwidth.
No, it doesn't. I have it, and I've added some pretty fierce rules to it, but I still see Google text ads.
Are you telling me there is a case where an ATi driver may be useful?
I think my brain is on fire...
if more did the same maybe studios would get the hint and stop giving this bozo money.
Or just blame piracy for the lack of money generated*. Boll isn't the only horrible filmmaker out there, he's just the (arguably) worst and he apparently revels in this sort of attention. I'm not sure why he picked video game movies as the genre to make worse. That's like deciding to make a worse version of ET for the 2600.
* But who would pirate a Uwe Boll movie, even with free unlimited bandwidth!?
Yes, because Wikipedia is the be-all, end-all of definitions and information...
It's pretty clear to me that he can only barely read. Expecting him to have a reasoned discourse with anyone is like expecting George Bush to pronounce nuclear correctly. It's just not going to happen. (Hint, George: There's ONE "u" in nuclear!)
/. tonight, I can't be sure.
I looked at some of his other posts, and pretty he's pretty much just a jackass. Or maybe I just feel like bitching at people on
Well, since you stopped reading his post, allow me:
A patent troll is someone who simply files or acquires as many patents as possible IN ORDER to sue. Forgent is well known for this, I believe.
Oh, and he never called you a troll, it was an either/or situation, something most people understand after they mature a bit. Lighten up a bit... jackass. (note that you had to read my post to get that far)
He pulled you out of a class, did he? Seriously, what kind of anger disorder do you have that these posts on /. make you think threatening someone is okay, or even worse, "cool"? Tip: You don't look cool, you look like a mad little boy. Just like high school, no one is impressed with you.
Ruin my internet reputation, too, please.
While you're at it, hit puberty. Thanks.
There are ~200 people within several square miles of here. There are several dozen miles of roads.
...Actually, I'm kind of curious why the hell cable, landline phone, and the electric company advertise at all... the water utility doesn't, and it has the same amount of competition.
See: Hurricane evacuations, especially last minute. It can take 24 hours to get 4 hours on major roadways.
Not that I like ISPs or their methods, or anything, just pointing out that the GP had a point about services being overloaded. The difference is in the presentation: My electric company doesn't advertise unlimited electricity. They barely advertise at all.
and unlike copyright the limits on duration are not totally insane.
the limits didn't use to be insane on copyrights, either. They were originally fourteen years. I would have no object to copyright at that point: most every NES game, all 80s music, and every book written up to today's date in 1993 would be legally public domain.
Give it time for some chode to get patents made engineer's life plus ninety-nine years...
You feel disillusioned? Imagine how poor Twitter feels right now!
Except this is a legal issue that could have affected him, and any other user of Linux, in a bad way. Unless you or someone you know is on the shows, I doubt they actually impact your life other than entertainment value. Also, he never said how much he reads Groklaw or used to read slashdot.
;)
Honestly, this post was so unnecessary I'm guessing you got scoffed at for watching and getting emotional over a 'reality' show.
I've also introduced it to people, mostly when they have a problem brought on by IE. As far as I am aware, none of them has turned back. Most of them are college professors/students, though, and that may skew things. (Most are not, however, computer science people)
One big thing they should fix already: I don't care what their reasoning is, the memory "leak" is a problem. It should never swell up and take up over 150MB of RAM. Sure, some computers have RAM to spare -- the average person with a cheap computer does not. They aren't going to upgrade their RAM, either. Firefox ought to shoot for a smaller footprint so older computers can handle it and leave it running without bogging down.
I know I'm feeding the troll here, but:
Redhat.
Kthx bye.
Did the OP mention gun violence? No.
Did the OP mention gun accidents? Yes.
Did the reply mention gun violence statistics? No.
Did the reply mention gun accident statistics? Yes.
Are gun violence deaths greater than gun accident deaths? Yes.
Is this relevant to the discussion, OP, or the reply the AC replied to in a smarmy manner? No.
So no, I'm not confused, but I think you might be. Go back and read the original post, then Kadin's reply. The AC starts off calling him a smart ass for providing accurate gun ACCIDENT deaths. Which we've established as the original focus of the OC's comment.
Which isn't accidental, now is it, dipshit? The OP said "gun accidents."
Reading comprehension: Not a bad skill to have!
Could they be bastards, and send you 5.25" floppies of the source diffs?
That's what I'd do if I was an Evil Overlord.
They're not required to do subsection a), which you quoted, just one of the three. But since they may just be including as opposed to selling Dosbox, subsection c) may well be acceptable. A lot of GPL'd software comes without the source -- many Linux distros don't include the source, either, but you can still get it. I'm pretty sure my copy of Ubuntu didn't come with source code, and I don't recall seeing an offer to get the source code during the install (but then who pays attention to license terms during an OS install?).
I said LAUNCH EXCLUSIVE you mental midget.
Take a reading comprehension class with your Sony shill money, asshole.
(For the record, last gen, I owned a PS2, and do not own either version of the X-Box.)
MICROSOFT was the company that paid big $$$ for exclusive content in GTA4.
Please cite.
Now that exclusive content is DELAYED. So the question should be "How will this affect Microsoft".
Except when the game comes out, MS and Sony will still be where they were before. The difference is that Sony will go another holiday season at a disadvantage, according to the OP.
Sony has a HUGE library of AAA exclusives coming out in the next 1-6 months so they will be fine.
Yes, we know. You tell us in every single thread. But they do not have BioShock (I know, there is PC version, some of us don't run Windows or want to upgrade a perfectly capable graphics card/RAM/etc which will all cost more than a 360 anyway), Mass Effect, Halo 3 (I know, the Sony troll response is IT LOOKS LAST GEN, save your keystrokes -- the game will still sell), Overlord (yes, a PC version, see earlier), Too Human -- except for Halo 3, all games I'm more interested in than Motorstorm and sports games. Also, they lost a few exclusives (if I recall correctly, Assassin's Creed was going to be), and Call of Duty: Airborne comes out for the 360 two months before the PS3 version -- and this is the first CoD game I've even been remotely interested in. See, I can list games, too.
The only exclusive Sony really has that interests me is Resistance: Fall of Man. And not enough to fork out $499 (or $599, or $399) plus the cost of the game. They may lose FF13, they lost launch exclusivity of GTA4 (which they had for VC and SA). I guess "they will be fine" means "they'll remain in third place."
When Nintendo used a crap format (N64 carts) they lost developers. We're talking about Nintendo here, an established presence at the time -- the NES and SNES had dominated their competition. Microsoft has sold a total of around 30 million consoles -- 20M X-Box, 10M 360s. Rounded, because I'm lazy and that's close enough. the N64 sold around that number. In addition, Nintendo actually did well in Japan, something Microsoft does not.
If MS's decision was actually hampering developers, they'd leave.
So take your whining somewhere the fuck else because it doesn't fit in with REALITY. Last gen, Sony had launch exclusivity for GTA:VC and GTA:SA. They lost that this generation. If anything, signs point to Sony pissing off Rockstar, not Microsoft. You never even back up things like:
And Rockstar has been publicly complaining about being forced to try to fit a free roaming city sized world into a smaller amount of space than last gen.
Where? I have no seen such a complaint -- and you'd think someone who hates MS enough to troll EVERY SINGLE GAMES POST might have a goddamn link handy for this. And don't tell me "MS is paying developers" unless you have a link for it. I love how everything MS does is shady or being paid for, but Sony is just this great consumer friendly corporation. I don't know what fairy tale land you live in, but in the world I live in, both companies fucking suck when it comes to the way they treat customers.
(/rant off)
No, I'm pretty sure Dr. Kool is going to keep buying PS3s.