To be fair: it's more like someone who is aware that the posted speed limit is, technically, the law, but thinks that following that law to the letter is pointless at best, and actively ridiculous at worst. And, I dare you: try to find anyone who would argue that you should never drive faster than 65mph on the freeway.
Hahahahahaha... that is awesome.
When you consider that this game has taken longer than the time it took for the US to announce they were going to put someone on the moon, and then actually put someone on the moon... Which should take "more time to innovate", an FPS, or the first real space ship ever made?
There was a prank a few years ago, in which someone set up a chatbot much like this. The only difference was, it wasn't done to swindle people, but just out of academic curiosity. Sadly, I can no longer find the site, but I wrote down a couple particularly good quotes from it:
"It is reasonable to expect a sample of humanity taken from those who expect to get sex out of internet chat to be biased towards the less intelligent portion of humanity."
"Sam's law: As a person's sexual desire approaches infinity, their ability to administer a turing test approaches 0."
In general, we don't tend to actually care about legality. We do care about rules, though, just not necessarily the rules that are currently law. For instance, in this case, they didn't attribute the source - in fact, they spent extra time removing attributions that were once there. In contrast, the Grey Album went out of its way to tell you exactly where everything was from, thus making it, in many peoples' minds, entirely an entirely legitimate form of art, even if it's technically copywrite violation.
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Could always find a friend at Harvard, and see if you could tunnel in through his computer?
No, the majority of us, I'm guessing, will say: "XP".
Linux does things much better than Windows in a lot of ways, but it's still not quite ready to become the standard personal (as opposed to server) OS. XP isn't perfect, either, but it's decent, and it generally just works, which is something I can say about neither Linux nor Vista.
Ah! I thought I'd heard of it at some point. Yup, I had indeed, desudesudesu.
Note: I am not, in fact, a/b/tard, though I know a couple; I didn't even heard about the event until a while after it happened, and had to google it a bit to figure out the significance. It was funny, though.
Yeah. Really, it's more like only shipping games for Vista, when pretty much everyone is actually just sticking with XP (and will, therefore, soon have easy access to DX10 emulation).
Yeah, but if its batteries were dying, it'd look like it was falling asleep. Little kids put blankets over their friends who've decided to take a sudden nap, all the time - I've seen it.
M: Oh look, this isn't an argument. A: Yes it is. M: No it isn't. It's just contradiction. A: No it isn't. M: It is! A: It is not. M: Look, you just contradicted me. A: I did not. M: Oh you did!! A: No, no, no. M: You did just then. A: Nonsense! M: Oh, this is futile! A: No it isn't. M: I came here for a good argument. A: No you didn't; no, you came here for an argument. M: An argument isn't just contradiction. A: It can be. M: No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition. A: No it isn't. M: Yes it is! It's not just contradiction. A: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position. M: Yes, but that's not just saying 'No it isn't.' A: Yes it is! M: No it isn't!
A: Yes it is! M: Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes. (short pause) A: No it isn't. M: It is. A: Not at all.
The problem is that the majority of the students are unlikely to be experts in the subject material, or else why would they be taking the class? When I go to wikipedia, I don't necessarily expect perfection, but I do expect that the vast majority of the information on there will have been written by someone who knows what they're talking about.
I have no problem with college students who are expects in the subject material (i.e. those doing doctoral dissertations on the subject, for instance) editing wikipedia in significant ways; I only have a problem with the idea of making students who don't know that much about the subject (and potentially don't care all that much, either, and just need the credit) edit pages in significant ways.
"Power" = "energy over time". "Power output" = "energy output over time". "1% of the power output of the Sun" = "1% of the Sun's energy output over time", i.e. its rate of energy output. I think the meaning was fairly clear.
Oh! I learned something new, thanks! I didn't realize that offline mode existed until you said that, but I just checked, and sure enough! That wins, a lot. I already didn't think Steam was evil, except perhaps as part of the phrase "a necessary evil", as it's really the best possible DRM system for software I can think of. It isn't overly restrictive, it only does what you tell it to, it only runs when you want it to, and it does provide actual benefits, namely being able to download software you own from any PC, anywhre. It's actually pretty neat. But at the same time, I did worry about the fact that Valve could pull the plug, and all your shiny software would turn into useless hunks of bits. But apparently not - offline mode relieves all the worries I had about the system.
Whereas in actuality... Vista sucks, and so does Linux. XP and OSX suck less, but they still suck too.
From Microsoft, to Macintosh,
to Lih-- lie-- lih-- lie... nux,
Every computer crashes,
'cause every OS sucks.
Yeah, but you don't have to tell them that. And by them, I mean people making that request. Just let them go on believing that everything's great, while meanwhile, anyone reasonably intelligent can get around the ban easily. So basically, it's just like all other DRM/copywrite restrictions.
Meh. Off-topic, but... while I might be a wannabe-hacker (in the old sense), I'm also a wannabe linguist, and as such, am all too aware that language change is both inevitable and generally beneficial. Thus, if "hacker" means "person who hacks into networks to gain information illegitimately", then that's what it means. Course, that doesn't stop me from using both definitions when appropriate, but if I actually want to be understood, I'll generally refer specifically to "hacker, by the MIT definition", when that's what I mean.
I was at the show as well, also in crappy seats (near the front, but way off to the side). I also only paid 50 bucks including fees and parking, but probably would have paid a little more if I'd had to. Despite the problems, VGL is still an absolutely amazing show (even if about half the music isn't new, if you've got a collection of old arranged game music from Japan like I do), and in any case, I like to give money to the cause of making game music an economic success here the way it is in Japan.
Still, while VGL was, overall a success, I heard from a close friend that E4All was anything but. Heard it was pretty lame, in fact, and I trusted his opinions on things like that. I've definitely gathered, independently of this post, that E4All was a lackluster imitation of the old E3, while PAX was the real thing. I still really want to go to PAX sometime...
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To be fair: it's more like someone who is aware that the posted speed limit is, technically, the law, but thinks that following that law to the letter is pointless at best, and actively ridiculous at worst. And, I dare you: try to find anyone who would argue that you should never drive faster than 65mph on the freeway.
Mod this one up, please.
Hahahahahaha... that is awesome.
When you consider that this game has taken longer than the time it took for the US to announce they were going to put someone on the moon, and then actually put someone on the moon... Which should take "more time to innovate", an FPS, or the first real space ship ever made?
Thanks! That's pretty awesome.
Also for XP. That way, all the people who once complained about various minor problems with XP can now say, "look, at least it's not Vista!"
There was a prank a few years ago, in which someone set up a chatbot much like this. The only difference was, it wasn't done to swindle people, but just out of academic curiosity. Sadly, I can no longer find the site, but I wrote down a couple particularly good quotes from it:
"It is reasonable to expect a sample of humanity taken from those who expect to get sex out of internet chat to be biased towards the less intelligent portion of humanity."
"Sam's law: As a person's sexual desire approaches infinity, their ability to administer a turing test approaches 0."
"Just WoW" indeed - WoW is almost as dangerous as smoking. :p
I know a couple kids who dropped out of college primarily because of WoW...
"A classic is something that everyone wants to have played, and nobody wants to play" (apologies to Mark Twain for the blatant reappropriation)
In general, we don't tend to actually care about legality. We do care about rules, though, just not necessarily the rules that are currently law. For instance, in this case, they didn't attribute the source - in fact, they spent extra time removing attributions that were once there. In contrast, the Grey Album went out of its way to tell you exactly where everything was from, thus making it, in many peoples' minds, entirely an entirely legitimate form of art, even if it's technically copywrite violation.
Could always find a friend at Harvard, and see if you could tunnel in through his computer?
No, the majority of us, I'm guessing, will say: "XP".
Linux does things much better than Windows in a lot of ways, but it's still not quite ready to become the standard personal (as opposed to server) OS. XP isn't perfect, either, but it's decent, and it generally just works, which is something I can say about neither Linux nor Vista.
Ah! I thought I'd heard of it at some point. Yup, I had indeed, desudesudesu.
/b/tard, though I know a couple; I didn't even heard about the event until a while after it happened, and had to google it a bit to figure out the significance. It was funny, though.
Note: I am not, in fact, a
Yeah. Really, it's more like only shipping games for Vista, when pretty much everyone is actually just sticking with XP (and will, therefore, soon have easy access to DX10 emulation).
Yeah, but if its batteries were dying, it'd look like it was falling asleep. Little kids put blankets over their friends who've decided to take a sudden nap, all the time - I've seen it.
M: Oh look, this isn't an argument.
A: Yes it is.
M: No it isn't. It's just contradiction.
A: No it isn't.
M: It is!
A: It is not.
M: Look, you just contradicted me.
A: I did not.
M: Oh you did!!
A: No, no, no.
M: You did just then.
A: Nonsense!
M: Oh, this is futile!
A: No it isn't.
M: I came here for a good argument.
A: No you didn't; no, you came here for an argument.
M: An argument isn't just contradiction.
A: It can be.
M: No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
A: No it isn't.
M: Yes it is! It's not just contradiction.
A: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
M: Yes, but that's not just saying 'No it isn't.'
A: Yes it is!
M: No it isn't!
A: Yes it is!
M: Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.
(short pause)
A: No it isn't.
M: It is.
A: Not at all.
The problem is that the majority of the students are unlikely to be experts in the subject material, or else why would they be taking the class? When I go to wikipedia, I don't necessarily expect perfection, but I do expect that the vast majority of the information on there will have been written by someone who knows what they're talking about. I have no problem with college students who are expects in the subject material (i.e. those doing doctoral dissertations on the subject, for instance) editing wikipedia in significant ways; I only have a problem with the idea of making students who don't know that much about the subject (and potentially don't care all that much, either, and just need the credit) edit pages in significant ways.
"Power" = "energy over time". "Power output" = "energy output over time". "1% of the power output of the Sun" = "1% of the Sun's energy output over time", i.e. its rate of energy output. I think the meaning was fairly clear.
And the rest are probably reading from class (like me).
So you could buy it, use a Russian proxy to activate it, then use it normally?
And on the flip-side, my mom has seriously said, on at least a couple occasions, "stop playing with your Nintendo", when I was surfing the internet.
Then again, I actually do want to be a professional codemonkey. I'm one of the weird ones.
Oh! I learned something new, thanks! I didn't realize that offline mode existed until you said that, but I just checked, and sure enough! That wins, a lot. I already didn't think Steam was evil, except perhaps as part of the phrase "a necessary evil", as it's really the best possible DRM system for software I can think of. It isn't overly restrictive, it only does what you tell it to, it only runs when you want it to, and it does provide actual benefits, namely being able to download software you own from any PC, anywhre. It's actually pretty neat. But at the same time, I did worry about the fact that Valve could pull the plug, and all your shiny software would turn into useless hunks of bits. But apparently not - offline mode relieves all the worries I had about the system.
Did it always work this way?
Whereas in actuality... Vista sucks, and so does Linux. XP and OSX suck less, but they still suck too. From Microsoft, to Macintosh, to Lih-- lie-- lih-- lie... nux, Every computer crashes, 'cause every OS sucks.
Yeah, but you don't have to tell them that. And by them, I mean people making that request. Just let them go on believing that everything's great, while meanwhile, anyone reasonably intelligent can get around the ban easily. So basically, it's just like all other DRM/copywrite restrictions.
Meh. Off-topic, but... while I might be a wannabe-hacker (in the old sense), I'm also a wannabe linguist, and as such, am all too aware that language change is both inevitable and generally beneficial. Thus, if "hacker" means "person who hacks into networks to gain information illegitimately", then that's what it means. Course, that doesn't stop me from using both definitions when appropriate, but if I actually want to be understood, I'll generally refer specifically to "hacker, by the MIT definition", when that's what I mean.
I was at the show as well, also in crappy seats (near the front, but way off to the side). I also only paid 50 bucks including fees and parking, but probably would have paid a little more if I'd had to. Despite the problems, VGL is still an absolutely amazing show (even if about half the music isn't new, if you've got a collection of old arranged game music from Japan like I do), and in any case, I like to give money to the cause of making game music an economic success here the way it is in Japan.
Still, while VGL was, overall a success, I heard from a close friend that E4All was anything but. Heard it was pretty lame, in fact, and I trusted his opinions on things like that. I've definitely gathered, independently of this post, that E4All was a lackluster imitation of the old E3, while PAX was the real thing. I still really want to go to PAX sometime...