Except...these people didn't actually buy the product, did they? No, they stole it. I don't see what the problem is.
Except...These aren't pirates. People who pirate games don't bitch and whine on forums if the game the pirated stops working. It doesn't cost them anything to get a game, so they don't really care if it breaks. The people who are taking the time to complain are people who are pissed off because the game they bought doesn't work.
Yeah, because the Execs at FOX have NEVER blown a call on a tv series. Please! FOX has a rep in the industry for making bad calls about their shows. The show, 'Family Guy' was killed after about 3 seasons and then went on to be a massive hit on DVD. (I have heard that it is being considered to be picked up by cartoon network as a new series.)
It was cancelled because the majority of people did not think it was superb.
It was cancelled because nobody knew anything about it. It was repeatedly moved to differing timeslots (This is VERY bad for a shows ratings, in general), and they didn't even show the episodes in order. I'm not even sure that they aired the pilot episode that sets the whole story. (You can go read all the gory details about how it was mis-handeled on most firefly sites.)
so its probably pretty poor in the eys of most people.
No matter how good a show is, unless you properly support and market it, it will die. Everyone I have loaned my DVD to LOVED it, including people who aren't sci-fi fans. This isn't a case of the masses not liking something. This is a case of some stupid Fox execs that blew a call (Yet again).
Shooting Nazis is generally considered good form...
Yeah, except that most games have you shooting the german Wermacht, which were ordinary soldiers, and not members of the National Socialist party. The SS was the group that was responsable for most of the atrocities that are associated with Nazi Germany. The German army could be said to be guilty of following the orders given to it by a corrupt and evil leadership, but it conducted itself pretty much as any professional army.
'People' is not the same as 'lots of people' or 'a majority'. A small group of rich assholes who believe that their 2nd ave property values will go down are the only people who have had any real complaint with the plan. They have used FUD to influence people, and had I-83 actuall passed, there was a very good chance that it would have been legally overturned, as it's basic premise runs afoul of the concept of 'public right of way'. Great legilature there.
There have been other businuess owners that have had issues with the rout, however, the local meetings with neighborhood groups and businuesses have hammered out these issues nicely. Several station plans have been altered as a result of these meetings.
The Monorail is currently on schedule and under budget. That you seem to be confusing the monorail project with soundtransit's light rail is understandable, as the Pro I-83 people tried to use this as a tactic to scare up support for their cause. The light rail project is behind schedule, over budget, and cutting planned track length to make up for the funding. The monorail isn't.
Finally, that it isn't yet done, implys nothing about people's desire to stop the project. Large scale public works projects like this often have schedules of 5-10 years. Strangely, I am not upset that they take time to plan on how to spend millions of dollars of public funds. What kind of idiot would expect something like this to be built in a single year or two?
What is really needed is publicly-available source code that anyone can view.
This is true, as it would be trivial to say, only throw 1 in 50 votes to Bush if the date was november 2nd between 8am and 6pm. Prior checking of the voting machine will prove NOTHING. Of course, an untrained inspector would not know this. You could even write a TSR that swaps the.exe that has been compiled and certified with a 'fixed'.exe for the duration of the election, and then destroys the evidence afterwards.
The code MUST be public. The machines must be imaged from a single source iso that is publicly available to anyone for inspection, OS and everything. They must have any interfaces sealed for the duration of an election in such a way that no tampering can occur. Until this happens, democracy is not safe.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance", is a quote that is often used when speaking of external threats to the country, but it is equally true for issues such as this.
Why mention alpaca? It takes about 1 lb to make enough alpaca yarn to make a sweater. At the store, said sweater will cost at least $100. It came from one of the cooperative mills in Peru or Bolivia, which cost the coop about $5.00 to make.
Irrelevant and moot. The point was that nobody *has* to make their own clothing to survive. several hundred years ago, you had to make your own clothing. Similarly, there will be some people will choose to drive manually when the need to to do so is no longer there.
While your comment went completely off topic, I would still mod it up if I could, since you managed to tie a MS-bashing comment on the end of a rant about how you can save money knitting yak sweaters. Bravo.
This is less applicable being in a hman controlled environement
Bzzzt. Thank you for playing. Nature operates just the same regardless if the clever monkeys think they are running things or not.
I have to wonder if our attempts to "help" animals actually results in long-term harm. Like it or not, the weak are supposed to die out.
As others have commented, the survival of the fittest is a long term propasition. It should probably be reworded as the survival of the fittest genetic information. Short term survival in the wild is as much random luck as physical strength.
But on to my real point. Just because monkeys who think they are clever are at the top of the food chain (for now), doesn't mean that the principle doesn't apply. The animals that will survive and live with us are the most fit to do so. If we happen to like 'cute' animals, then they are gifted with a useful trait that will cause them to dominate the environment we create. We cannot tamper with the system from the outside, since we are part of the system, too.
People are funny to think they can control nature. We can alter it's direction a bit, but never cotrol it.
A computer doesn't drink and drive. A computer doesn't drive badly. A computer doesn't drive emotionally. A computer isn't 16 and driving with a new liscence. A computer doesn't get tired. A computer doesn't drive when it can't find it's glasses. A computer doesn't get distracted by chatting with passengers, listening to music, putting on make-up, watching DVDs, drinking coffeee, or taking phone calls. A computer doesn't race with it's friends.
Computer sensors could (in theory) operate in darkenss, fog, snow, or rain far better than a human could.
Considering that driving is usually a fairly mechanical activity, I think that this would be a good thing to automate. Plus, a coumputer could be programmed to drive in a more fuel efficient fashion. It could moniter traffic situatons and rout around them. Because it doesn't drive eratically, drive times become more predictable. As more cars become automated, driving becomes safer for everyone. This stupid weight escalation shit of buying an SUV becasue it is 'safer' can end.
There will always be some people that like driving a car. There are people that still enjoy knitting, even though there is no real need to make your own sweaters anymore. For most though, I think that a car is a source of freedom to go anywhere they want, and not so much a pleasure to drive. For those people, it wouldn't matter who drove, just that they got where they wanted to go.
We @r3 7eet! i @m g01ng t0 sn1p3 j00! LOL!LOL! F@gg0t flag camp3rs! u r g@y, @nd u suxx0r at CS. J00 @re pr0bily us1ng @n @iming scr1pt f0r y0ur @rt1llery! LOL! W3 w1ll tk u unt1l u @re ded! LOL! F@ggotz! LOL!
Sure they are replication feats that we have already achieved, but its new to them. A 'Big deal, been there done that' attitude isn't the way to view this. That they are doing things like this shows that they are catching up. When a communist country that has 1/5 of the entire planets population decides it wants to be a superpower, you should pay attention.
Hey, that's great! That means that the Chinese people will only be brutally subjugated under the cold boot of tyrany for another forty years! Hold on China, the light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer...
What are you talking about? There are Christian Bin Ladens out there. They are the people who bomb abortion clinics, and murder the staff. They haven't flown a plane into the world trade center, so sure, they don't get the same level of press coverage.
I am of the opinion that the problem with the world isn't Islam, it is any sort of fundy religion. Religious radicals are a menace to everyone.
God I hate hypocrits like you. MS can't have it both ways no matter how many apologists like you they have behind them.
God I hate idiots like you, assuming that the world is black and white. Because I suggest that one of/.s many virulent attacks on MS is off base, I mediately become and 'apologist'. I can't suggest that a person's take on the issue is one-sided without becoming a hypocrit.
I have actually worked at MS. They have very strict rules about using non-liscenced software, and they try to enforce it. They terminate people who do this. Because one person decides to break these rules, MS is a pack of hypocrites? I think that they try to respect other companies' IP rights like this is a rather glaring hole in your rant. MS has a third choice: can this person. That would keep it's moral standing pretty solid.
I am not an apologist, just someone who is able you get past the juvenile mode of thought where something is irrevocably good or evil. Did MS use it's power to bully other companies? Sure. Did MS engage in the browser wars to dominate the market? Looks pretty clear to me. Has MS created a simple to use OS that allows millions of casual users across the world use computers? Yep. Has the Internet grown into the communications meidum that is is today as a result of those millions of users having a way to interface with it? Yep. Let's even go further. Has LINUX useage and development grown as more experienced windows users make a switch to alternate operating systems? Gee, let's think about that. MS is just like any average person: It has some good points and some bad points.
But since we are engaging in ad hominem attacks, rather than having an adult debate, fuck you, you immature twit. Why don't you go join the Republican party, they seem to love people with small minds and can only see the world in two colors. I bet you and George will get along well.
I think this would be a good time for all of/. to chip some money, and buy penis enlargement pills for his cell mate. I for one, would be statisfied with even a small increase in the girth of the sexual organ of whoever was giving his ass the sort of treatment that he gave the Internet on a daily basis.
Oh, yeah, and we also need to get his cell mate as much viagra as possible...
Bill Gates, Really Rich Guy of Microsoft: "Our audio files aren't 'warezed', it's pronounced, 'wave'. Apple will never beat Microsoft in making the digital home reality, and we do have the volume. In fact, Longhorn I'm told, goes to 11. WE GO TO 11, JOBS! 11!"
...Or some guy just liked using his cracked copy of SF, and brought it into work to use.
Before you go running off all bitter and self-righeous, you might want to consider the difference between the coporate management and the average joe schmuck employee.
This isn't MS being hypocrites, it is an employee breaking company policy and bringing in outside sofware.
But this isn't some vast MS conspiracy here, nor I'm sure does it represent the tip of a huge warez-using portion of MS iceberg.
YOU DENY IT! Why do you deny it? Who said that there was a huge warez-using portion of MS iceberg, hmmm? The article didn't mention it. You seem awful defensive!
What kind of name is fzammette? Is that some sort of 'cover' or 'alias'? Why do you post under an alias, fzammette? Who do you work for? WHO DO YOU WORK FOR!
I keep joking that if I get several more pre-approved credit cards with 10k limits, I'm going to max them all out for cash and skip the country.
I then fly to some impoverished third world backwater, buy a jeep full of thugs armed with guns, and take over.
I will then rule like any proper bannana rupublic dictator, holding rigged elections and having my opponents dissapear into the jungle. But I would dig a new town well, and teach all the children how to pirate Mp3s.
Foreign policy would be a cinch. I'd ask the US to recognise my newly formed country, and support me in power. I'd offer them an unlimited duration military base and cooperation in hunting down terrorists, provided they wern't me. I'd conduct policy based off of the theory of NOT PISSING OFF THE BIGGEST COUNRTY IN THE WORLD, something that the Taliban couldn't seem to quite grip.
The really spooky thing is, just such a plan might work. The pathetic thing is, the people I would be ruling over actually might be better off under my system of comic tyrany than some of the legitimate governments that exist in the third world.
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Except...these people didn't actually buy the product, did they? No, they stole it. I don't see what the problem is.
Except...These aren't pirates. People who pirate games don't bitch and whine on forums if the game the pirated stops working. It doesn't cost them anything to get a game, so they don't really care if it breaks. The people who are taking the time to complain are people who are pissed off because the game they bought doesn't work.
If was superb it would not have been cancelled
Yeah, because the Execs at FOX have NEVER blown a call on a tv series. Please! FOX has a rep in the industry for making bad calls about their shows. The show, 'Family Guy' was killed after about 3 seasons and then went on to be a massive hit on DVD. (I have heard that it is being considered to be picked up by cartoon network as a new series.)
It was cancelled because the majority of people did not think it was superb.
It was cancelled because nobody knew anything about it. It was repeatedly moved to differing timeslots (This is VERY bad for a shows ratings, in general), and they didn't even show the episodes in order. I'm not even sure that they aired the pilot episode that sets the whole story. (You can go read all the gory details about how it was mis-handeled on most firefly sites.)
so its probably pretty poor in the eys of most people.
No matter how good a show is, unless you properly support and market it, it will die. Everyone I have loaned my DVD to LOVED it, including people who aren't sci-fi fans. This isn't a case of the masses not liking something. This is a case of some stupid Fox execs that blew a call (Yet again).
Joss, don't make me kick you into an engine...
I WANT MY SPACEWHORES NOW!
Shooting Nazis is generally considered good form...
Yeah, except that most games have you shooting the german Wermacht, which were ordinary soldiers, and not members of the National Socialist party. The SS was the group that was responsable for most of the atrocities that are associated with Nazi Germany. The German army could be said to be guilty of following the orders given to it by a corrupt and evil leadership, but it conducted itself pretty much as any professional army.
'People' is not the same as 'lots of people' or 'a majority'. A small group of rich assholes who believe that their 2nd ave property values will go down are the only people who have had any real complaint with the plan. They have used FUD to influence people, and had I-83 actuall passed, there was a very good chance that it would have been legally overturned, as it's basic premise runs afoul of the concept of 'public right of way'. Great legilature there.
There have been other businuess owners that have had issues with the rout, however, the local meetings with neighborhood groups and businuesses have hammered out these issues nicely. Several station plans have been altered as a result of these meetings.
The Monorail is currently on schedule and under budget. That you seem to be confusing the monorail project with soundtransit's light rail is understandable, as the Pro I-83 people tried to use this as a tactic to scare up support for their cause. The light rail project is behind schedule, over budget, and cutting planned track length to make up for the funding. The monorail isn't.
Finally, that it isn't yet done, implys nothing about people's desire to stop the project. Large scale public works projects like this often have schedules of 5-10 years. Strangely, I am not upset that they take time to plan on how to spend millions of dollars of public funds. What kind of idiot would expect something like this to be built in a single year or two?
Dear MPAA,
You are starting to piss me off. Don't make me spend my movie money on collecting NERF whifflebats or something stupid like that. I'll do it....
What is really needed is publicly-available source code that anyone can view.
.exe that has been compiled and certified with a 'fixed' .exe for the duration of the election, and then destroys the evidence afterwards.
This is true, as it would be trivial to say, only throw 1 in 50 votes to Bush if the date was november 2nd between 8am and 6pm. Prior checking of the voting machine will prove NOTHING. Of course, an untrained inspector would not know this. You could even write a TSR that swaps the
The code MUST be public. The machines must be imaged from a single source iso that is publicly available to anyone for inspection, OS and everything. They must have any interfaces sealed for the duration of an election in such a way that no tampering can occur. Until this happens, democracy is not safe.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance", is a quote that is often used when speaking of external threats to the country, but it is equally true for issues such as this.
Maybe it can be built in the Seattle-Tacoma area instead of the monorail that nobody wants to pay for.
...Which is why on all four occasions ballot measures revolving around building the monorail have passed. 4 out of 4. Yeah, nobody wants it.
Why mention alpaca? It takes about 1 lb to make enough alpaca yarn to make a sweater. At the store, said sweater will cost at least $100. It came from one of the cooperative mills in Peru or Bolivia, which cost the coop about $5.00 to make.
Irrelevant and moot. The point was that nobody *has* to make their own clothing to survive. several hundred years ago, you had to make your own clothing. Similarly, there will be some people will choose to drive manually when the need to to do so is no longer there.
While your comment went completely off topic, I would still mod it up if I could, since you managed to tie a MS-bashing comment on the end of a rant about how you can save money knitting yak sweaters. Bravo.
This is less applicable being in a hman controlled environement
Bzzzt. Thank you for playing. Nature operates just the same regardless if the clever monkeys think they are running things or not.
I have to wonder if our attempts to "help" animals actually results in long-term harm. Like it or not, the weak are supposed to die out.
As others have commented, the survival of the fittest is a long term propasition. It should probably be reworded as the survival of the fittest genetic information. Short term survival in the wild is as much random luck as physical strength.
But on to my real point. Just because monkeys who think they are clever are at the top of the food chain (for now), doesn't mean that the principle doesn't apply. The animals that will survive and live with us are the most fit to do so. If we happen to like 'cute' animals, then they are gifted with a useful trait that will cause them to dominate the environment we create. We cannot tamper with the system from the outside, since we are part of the system, too.
People are funny to think they can control nature. We can alter it's direction a bit, but never cotrol it.
A computer doesn't drink and drive. A computer doesn't drive badly. A computer doesn't drive emotionally. A computer isn't 16 and driving with a new liscence. A computer doesn't get tired. A computer doesn't drive when it can't find it's glasses. A computer doesn't get distracted by chatting with passengers, listening to music, putting on make-up, watching DVDs, drinking coffeee, or taking phone calls. A computer doesn't race with it's friends.
Computer sensors could (in theory) operate in darkenss, fog, snow, or rain far better than a human could.
Considering that driving is usually a fairly mechanical activity, I think that this would be a good thing to automate. Plus, a coumputer could be programmed to drive in a more fuel efficient fashion. It could moniter traffic situatons and rout around them. Because it doesn't drive eratically, drive times become more predictable. As more cars become automated, driving becomes safer for everyone. This stupid weight escalation shit of buying an SUV becasue it is 'safer' can end.
There will always be some people that like driving a car. There are people that still enjoy knitting, even though there is no real need to make your own sweaters anymore. For most though, I think that a car is a source of freedom to go anywhere they want, and not so much a pleasure to drive. For those people, it wouldn't matter who drove, just that they got where they wanted to go.
We @r3 7eet! i @m g01ng t0 sn1p3 j00! LOL!LOL! F@gg0t flag camp3rs! u r g@y, @nd u suxx0r at CS. J00 @re pr0bily us1ng @n @iming scr1pt f0r y0ur @rt1llery! LOL! W3 w1ll tk u unt1l u @re ded! LOL! F@ggotz! LOL!
Sure they are replication feats that we have already achieved, but its new to them. A 'Big deal, been there done that' attitude isn't the way to view this. That they are doing things like this shows that they are catching up. When a communist country that has 1/5 of the entire planets population decides it wants to be a superpower, you should pay attention.
They're like the Soviet Union of the 50's,
Hey, that's great! That means that the Chinese people will only be brutally subjugated under the cold boot of tyrany for another forty years! Hold on China, the light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer...
*FORTY MORE YEARS! FORTY MORE YEARS!*
Especially the commercials about menstruation. They always seems to come on when I'm eating diner.
Isn't it just the worst when you're eating scrambled eggs for dinner?
On the subject of sexual symbolisim, Sigmund Freude was once quoted as saying, 'Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.'
;-)
You're just crazy.
What are you talking about? There are Christian Bin Ladens out there. They are the people who bomb abortion clinics, and murder the staff. They haven't flown a plane into the world trade center, so sure, they don't get the same level of press coverage.
I am of the opinion that the problem with the world isn't Islam, it is any sort of fundy religion. Religious radicals are a menace to everyone.
God I hate hypocrits like you. MS can't have it both ways no matter how many apologists like you they have behind them.
/.s many virulent attacks on MS is off base, I mediately become and 'apologist'. I can't suggest that a person's take on the issue is one-sided without becoming a hypocrit.
God I hate idiots like you, assuming that the world is black and white. Because I suggest that one of
I have actually worked at MS. They have very strict rules about using non-liscenced software, and they try to enforce it. They terminate people who do this. Because one person decides to break these rules, MS is a pack of hypocrites? I think that they try to respect other companies' IP rights like this is a rather glaring hole in your rant. MS has a third choice: can this person. That would keep it's moral standing pretty solid.
I am not an apologist, just someone who is able you get past the juvenile mode of thought where something is irrevocably good or evil. Did MS use it's power to bully other companies? Sure. Did MS engage in the browser wars to dominate the market? Looks pretty clear to me. Has MS created a simple to use OS that allows millions of casual users across the world use computers? Yep. Has the Internet grown into the communications meidum that is is today as a result of those millions of users having a way to interface with it? Yep. Let's even go further. Has LINUX useage and development grown as more experienced windows users make a switch to alternate operating systems? Gee, let's think about that. MS is just like any average person: It has some good points and some bad points.
But since we are engaging in ad hominem attacks, rather than having an adult debate, fuck you, you immature twit. Why don't you go join the Republican party, they seem to love people with small minds and can only see the world in two colors. I bet you and George will get along well.
No, its another absolute proof of the complete and utter incompetence of microsoft QC
...Because, you know, QC is supposed to examine every file created with a hex editor for this sort of thing.
I think this would be a good time for all of /. to chip some money, and buy penis enlargement pills for his cell mate. I for one, would be statisfied with even a small increase in the girth of the sexual organ of whoever was giving his ass the sort of treatment that he gave the Internet on a daily basis.
Oh, yeah, and we also need to get his cell mate as much viagra as possible...
Also just in:
Bill Gates, Really Rich Guy of Microsoft: "Our audio files aren't 'warezed', it's pronounced, 'wave'. Apple will never beat Microsoft in making the digital home reality, and we do have the volume. In fact, Longhorn I'm told, goes to 11. WE GO TO 11, JOBS! 11!"
...Or some guy just liked using his cracked copy of SF, and brought it into work to use.
Before you go running off all bitter and self-righeous, you might want to consider the difference between the coporate management and the average joe schmuck employee.
This isn't MS being hypocrites, it is an employee breaking company policy and bringing in outside sofware.
But this isn't some vast MS conspiracy here, nor I'm sure does it represent the tip of a huge warez-using portion of MS iceberg.
YOU DENY IT! Why do you deny it? Who said that there was a huge warez-using portion of MS iceberg, hmmm? The article didn't mention it. You seem awful defensive!
What kind of name is fzammette? Is that some sort of 'cover' or 'alias'? Why do you post under an alias, fzammette? Who do you work for? WHO DO YOU WORK FOR!
I heartlily recommend that you pirate one.
I keep joking that if I get several more pre-approved credit cards with 10k limits, I'm going to max them all out for cash and skip the country.
I then fly to some impoverished third world backwater, buy a jeep full of thugs armed with guns, and take over.
I will then rule like any proper bannana rupublic dictator, holding rigged elections and having my opponents dissapear into the jungle. But I would dig a new town well, and teach all the children how to pirate Mp3s.
Foreign policy would be a cinch. I'd ask the US to recognise my newly formed country, and support me in power. I'd offer them an unlimited duration military base and cooperation in hunting down terrorists, provided they wern't me. I'd conduct policy based off of the theory of NOT PISSING OFF THE BIGGEST COUNRTY IN THE WORLD, something that the Taliban couldn't seem to quite grip.
The really spooky thing is, just such a plan might work. The pathetic thing is, the people I would be ruling over actually might be better off under my system of comic tyrany than some of the legitimate governments that exist in the third world.