Same here. I know the difference between right and wrong. Walked out of a Barnes and Noble with half the bags contents not properly scanned through. Neither the employee or I noticed it at the time. By the time I was to the car I realized it and turned back around to inform the employee so I could pay for what I had thought I had purchased. The employee was very surprised when I handed her the bag and said the receipt didn't match the contents and paused a second before saying that it was an error in my favor and not the other way around. My cost doubled what it was but it was what I had thought I was paying for in the first place. I could have stayed at the car with my half a bag of books that I didn't pay for and thought how smart I was for 'getting over' on the big store and thinking how stupid the employee was. I could have thought it was a lottery win for me and that I was free and clear and their loss was my gain and all of that. Except I know the difference between right and wrong. The Amazon programming error or the employee scanning error - in either instance there was an error made and you and I are smart enough to know it. The people who thought they were getting over with their two free dvd sets also knew a mistake was being made. They knew it was wrong and morally it was the same thing as if they put those sets in their pockets and walked out of a store. Just cause you think that nobody sees you steal the dvd set does in no way make it ok. Anyone who thinks differently has a twisted view of morality and of what is right and what is wrong. Period.
I completely agree that beta testing of Vista is best left to others. For those folks who love buggy software which will break their devices and who love the mystery of trying to find out why things don't work anymore. Kind of like the car mechanic with the car that works when it wants too and whose hood is always up. I don't see myself rushing out to buy a buggy, DRM filled Operating System that doesn't offer anything new other than that the need for a whole new computer to use it and at that, the thing is more locked down and more user unfriendly than XP could have dreamed of being. Decreasing playback quality, lower frame rates from your video card and a slower computer so that it can constantly monitor whether or not you are using approved games, programs and media. No thanks. (thanks Peter Gutmann) If none of us buy it, if none of us are suckered into wanting it for the mythical DirectX 10 and the games that aren't out yet then perhaps it'll be rushed back to the labs and made more consumer friendly. Yah, like that'll ever happen. I won't get it until forced too either.
I remember when the catchall symbol for stupid was supposed to be the Polish Navy as far as politically uncorrect jokes about general stupidity was concerned. (Something about screen doors on their submarines and such) I remember jokes in Ohio revolved around bumpkin Kentucky, using sometimes the same jokes I heard in elementary school about the stupid group of the day. Now we have a new standard in stupid groups of people which nicely enough doesn't target a ethnic group or a whole state of people (that could be argued), yes indeed, the past home of President John Adams (second President) and John Quincy Adams (sixth President) is now most famous for stupid officials in Boston who blow up Aqua Teen Hunger Force lightboards which are mistaken for bombs. I look forward to hearing all those old jokes retold. Did you hear the one about the Boston Navy and how their submarines kept sinking? How many Bostonian's does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Gotta stay far far away from Boston and their Keystone Cops and common sense deprived public officals.
You are welcomed. I bought this card a while back when I saw how the wind was blowing and figured I wouldn't be able to get a hdtv card much longer. DRM and protection schemes and all. And while I'm not an expert in any of it, it doesn't seem to me that there are a lot of hdtv cards out there now. I'll use the card when I build a new computer cause as far as I can tell, nothing new out there will give me the even the limited freedom of use I have with this card. Sad to say.
That would be the ATI HDTV/Analog Wonder Card. Don't have MythTV, it's on Windows XP. Use it to watch over the air HDTV, like football games and episodes of House and 24. The HDTV stuff looks beautiful on my old crt, the stuff from regular cable looks like fuzzy crap. And I never try to record anything anyways which is the funny part. Thanks for asking.
Kind of like when I put my tv card in my windows xp box and it informed me that since I didn't have drm crap enabled, my picture would be downgraded. Obviously Windows folks do everything possible for our safety and enjoyment and in order to provide the 'best windows experience possible' Yeah, right. Like I would believe these guys if they said anything. Like a previous poster who mentioned the Orwellian way of speaking, war is peace and other fun ways to confuse reality with words meaning something else.
Oh yeah, I remember the good old days when I could pick up a USB drive and be able to plug it in and simply move files back and forth as it was intended. Simple. Bought a USB drive from Best Buy and it was garbage. It wanted to - for my convenience - load crap software on my computer and generally was a pain in the ass trying to use it for what I wanted. Next USB flash drive I bought I had to sit there for twenty minutes to find one, more expensive, that would allow me to use it without having all that crap software/spyware on it. Definitely not an improvement.
I gotta be cold, hungry and drink red wine in moderation while eating fish and vegetables if I want to live longer. And apparently become a Super Villian. As long as I don't have to have that fake Austrian accent.
Man, and what's up with all the stuff I now have to do to write a comment? Geez.
Remember when cable tv came out and one of the things they said about it was that you would get commercial free tv? Remember when you could watch PBS and they advertized that an advantage of Public TV was the absense of ads and commercials? Ya, I can't remember these things either. PBS shows are the same length as regular commercial tv shows and the spare time is spent showing you ads and commercials for the proud sponsors who brought the show to you. Cable TV, well heck, not only do you get commercials, you get half a day of commercials/infomercials on most of the cable networks and then another third of the channels are shopping networks selling you either fake gem jewelry or jesus. Commercials and ads in your games are product placements and they're the thin wedge which just keeps pressing on you until you give up fighting it. A little bit here, a little push there and they'll soon have you further wired and hooked into the stuff they want to sell you. After all, your car advertises the make and model and where you bought it. You buy shirts advertising the brand on the chest and you buy tee shirts advertising everything from the Tequila you think is cool to the Car you wish you had. And after all, buying things is your duty anyways. Didn't President Bush and all the government authorities tell us after 9-11 to go about our business of living our lives and buying things?
Some folks will pay for the convenience of it rather than hunting and pecking and surfing along the web finding or not finding the kind of music or talk they want to listen to. And if Sirius can sell that to John Q Public then good for them, everybody wins. Even the fanboys who say you can find music and talk on your own on the web can feel superior for their greater knowledge of surfing the web. Win Win.
Bullshit.
You say "I empathize with the legitimate desire to protect kids, but it relies on the fallacies that children/teens do not have adequate coping mechanisms and/or are better off in ignorance."
Nobody has adequate coping mechanisms for everything that can possibly happen. Your prescription seems to be that well, since you can't protect them 24/7 then it's no use in doing anything is liberal claptrap. You claim by saying 'The fact is...blah blah blah...." that makes it a fact. Sorry, I learned that debate trick as well and your facts are not facts but your opinions dressed up as facts.
In reality (my debate trick back to you), and in my opinion, you can protect your children and have an obligation to do so. You do the best job at protecting them that you can. Certainly they will become aware of the bad things in the world, and as a parent or a government even you have an obligation to make them aware of those bad things. The government, the society itself has laws to deal with those who prey on children. You as a parent, have an obligation to protect your child/children. If you're a parent do your job. Your nonsensical pablum about trusting your kids rather than protecting your kids is just that - nonsense.
Look, I don't how many kids you've raised but the child/parent relationship is one you have to work at. It's not 'let the kids have their way or they'll kill you in your sleep' - if your kids are running around doing the things with computers that are suggested here, if you have parents who are wondering about routers and other ways of blocking what the kids are doing you've already completely failed as a parent. As the parent you are responsible, period. As the parent you are teaching, guiding, and helping your kids grow to adulthood. If you think that means letting your child have full and completely unguided access to computers and a car and the house and your credit cards then your kid might grow up alright but the chances for the big crash coming are greatly increased. If you choose to be a parent and guide them, directing them from a young age, teaching them right from wrong then this whole crap about kids going behind the backs of their parents isn't going to happen.
Look, I hear from other parents who say to me, 'man, you are hard core on your kids - you have to let them be free.' - Well those parents who have said that to me have had to bail their kids out of jail, spend thousands of dollars on cleaning up their criminal records, begged their kids to go to college, have buried their kids and otherwise reaped the bitter harvest of their lack of parenting. And still they think they are right in their laizze faire attitude toward their kids. My son's close to graduating with a double E engineering degree, straight A, a good young man who knows right from wrong and who will be able to lead the kind of life he wants. If I let him do his own thing when he was younger he wouldn't have taken the hard classes, he wouldn't have had me over his shoulder pushing him to do his homework before anything else, reminding him that the choices he makes at twelve affect him when he's eighteen. Did I ever take his Playstation away, his computer away? Hell yes. It's called parenting. Belittle it all you want, be as witty and have as superior an attitude as you want but I've made the right choices in something that important to me and my family.
Ya, it's easy to take care of all of this BS. Pull the plug on the computer. That'll get the boy's attention. And then if and when you ever plug it back in, put the damn thing in the living room. If you don't want us seeing what you're doing that's a good clue that you shouldn't be doing it. Don't like it? There's the door. Punk ass kid.
There is no way you can make a rational argument that dogs actually can cause people to go out and murder people. Son of Sam was a head case as it was and you know, his dog didn't actually talk to him. Now as for pornography, there is an argument to be made that violent porn can encourage someone to further his or her violent fantasies. I don't know if that is true or not but I do know you can make a argument to that effect. I do believe that pornography is used to sexually stimulate the viewer and whether it's women in french maid outfits or kiddie porn, - it's designed to stimulate the intended audience. Kiddie porn is against the law and possession of it is a crime. I think it's even a crime if it's not real children now. The reasoning is because it stimulates pedeophiles to commit crimes against children. It seems to me that if you have and enjoy violent porn the same reasoning should apply. You are someone who is likely to violently assault women/boys/whatever in the future when the pictures don't do it for you anymore. And your civil liberties do not extend to harming other people and society has a right to protect itself from those who will harm it.
You know, I'm real tired of these scientists taking out and changing things I know and accept. Pluto is the ninth planet and that's it. No 10 percent of a bunch of geeks attending a conference in some third world country is going to change the number of planets there are that revolve around the sun. Geeks attending a conference. Scientist geeks who have something against the planet Pluto. Probably the same geeky retards who tried to get the US to change to metric. Even the NASA scientists said this is bogus and I agree. And besides, I'm still steaming mad about whoever the heck it was that decided the Brontasaurus didn't exist anymore. Way to go douchbags, teach us about the Brontasaurus then long after I'm out of school say oops! Sorry, that's something else entirely, our bad. Right. No wonder so many Americans are willing to disbelieve evolution these days, the geek patrol nazi's can't seem to keep the same story.
Well said and well spoken. The first troll that answered your post is an example of what part of the problem is. His opinion and his thoughts matter, not yours or mine. He feels comfortable cussing and calling names since of course - you don't matter, your opinion doesn't matter and since it's not his opinion you are a bleeping idiot. Thinking like that makes it okay to ban smoking in restaurants and everywhere else now. Taking the freedom away from the restaurant that can allow smoking or not is okay since they're idiots and people who go to restaurants are idiots and so we need to decide what's right for them and then tell them what to do. And while we're at it, and since controlling every aspect of people is going so well let's outlaw sharing of songs or even figuring out how to play a song. Let's make it so that you can't copy something you see on tv and let's fill music cd's and dvd's full of copy protection so they won't even play in some cd or dvd players. And if you figured out a couple of bars of the latest Los Lonely Boys single then whoa are you in trouble.
I never used OLGA, it was always or seemed to always be spotty and there are plenty of other sites online that provide tabs and links to tabs more efficiently. Having said that, it's sad to see it go. One more avenue for free expression of user made tab interpretations of songs gone. Gone but replaced already. And if anything, being able to learn guitar, to be able to call up in an instant a tab or five for one song I'm learning on my guitar has sent me off buying those Mel Bay tab books and compilation tab books all the more quickly. So the scummy, evil lawyers and their false claim of harm is on the face of it, absurd. It's also just the grinding justification that such lawyers use to justify their own existence as they troll along like lampreys looking to attach themselves to something bigger and better.
On the other hand,I pat myself on the back for buying Guitar Pro 5 early while they still had the whole catalog of guitar pro tabs to download with it so I have a good sized library of tabs I can hear. Yup, they closed down that tab collection down but it sprung right back up in a couple of places.
No, it's 'you're the idiot' idiot. And I don't have to jump off a bridge to know that it's a long way down. I read boards like this one to see and hear the collective wisdom of everybody. Any inclination I had to try any game with 'Steam' went away as I heard the discussion about it. Simple. Enough people tell you something is crap you don't need to stick your face in it to see that it's crap. Do you understand that concept? But by all means, you go ahead and ignor what other people say and try everything yourself.
The original discussion was about what we think about the claim that piracy has eroded pc game sales. My point was that copy protection and the basic hosing of my computer by various copy schemes is what has put me off buying pc games. I remember reading about all the problems that Steam caused computer owners and no amount of calling me a troll or an idiot will change that. No amount of name calling will change the fact that I and many other people will not buy games that put more than the game on their computers. You can't yell us down, shout us down or intimiate us down and make us quiet. I won't put a game or a program on my computer that needs to call home to see if I'm allowed to play. I won't put a game or a program on my computer that reports back to whoever about what I look at, buy or research. Feel free to advocate for the company you work for but I doubt that you'll be able to keep me from having an opinion.
And you're just another anonymous coward. If I have the particulars wrong about steam I do know all I need to know - that it farks up my computer. I don't need to put games on my computer to know what I'm hearing from everyone else. Idiot.
I would buy a game when I knew I could find a no-cd crack for it. It just annoys the hell out of me that I can buy and load other programs up on my computer but this 50 dollar game is so important that it needs me to feed it the install disk every time I want to play it. I've read here about the evil thing called 'Steam' and I've not put anything on my computer that has that. I'm thinking all new games have this crap or a variation of this crap and so I don't even look at PC games anymore. If PC game sales are down it's because of this sort of thing. You developers make it hard for me to enjoy and play a game by wanting to infiltrate my computer with your software protection stuff and phone home features and you know, I don't need it. Wake me up when they start advertising games without the copy protection and which allow me to actually load them up without having to keep track of the install disk. Im not holding my breath on that one though.
You decided to not believe the police statement that the kids 'stripped every branch from the tree' - and in even words you could understand -that would destroy the tree. And if the tree, stripped and damaged, still managed to survive and in ten years actually began to look like a tree again then you would still have the damage done by the kids. But again,if you won't believe the police statement in this then argue that point. Don't argue that the tree wasn't destroyed if it's branches were stripped.
And destroying public property is still a crime. And if you wanted to go into a National Forest and cut down a Christmas tree - you - would - need - a - permit - for - it. Trees are there on public property for the public good. Not the individual desires if you happened to want the wood from that tree.
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Same here. I know the difference between right and wrong. Walked out of a Barnes and Noble with half the bags contents not properly scanned through. Neither the employee or I noticed it at the time. By the time I was to the car I realized it and turned back around to inform the employee so I could pay for what I had thought I had purchased. The employee was very surprised when I handed her the bag and said the receipt didn't match the contents and paused a second before saying that it was an error in my favor and not the other way around. My cost doubled what it was but it was what I had thought I was paying for in the first place. I could have stayed at the car with my half a bag of books that I didn't pay for and thought how smart I was for 'getting over' on the big store and thinking how stupid the employee was. I could have thought it was a lottery win for me and that I was free and clear and their loss was my gain and all of that. Except I know the difference between right and wrong. The Amazon programming error or the employee scanning error - in either instance there was an error made and you and I are smart enough to know it. The people who thought they were getting over with their two free dvd sets also knew a mistake was being made. They knew it was wrong and morally it was the same thing as if they put those sets in their pockets and walked out of a store. Just cause you think that nobody sees you steal the dvd set does in no way make it ok. Anyone who thinks differently has a twisted view of morality and of what is right and what is wrong. Period.
Greetings to you Microsoft operator/propagandist. It's not FUD if it's true. But truth overcomes FUD when we've got all this brain power on it. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_c ost.html#response
Best gaming play is still via the computer for many types of games. And I agree, don't buy Vista.
I completely agree that beta testing of Vista is best left to others. For those folks who love buggy software which will break their devices and who love the mystery of trying to find out why things don't work anymore. Kind of like the car mechanic with the car that works when it wants too and whose hood is always up. I don't see myself rushing out to buy a buggy, DRM filled Operating System that doesn't offer anything new other than that the need for a whole new computer to use it and at that, the thing is more locked down and more user unfriendly than XP could have dreamed of being. Decreasing playback quality, lower frame rates from your video card and a slower computer so that it can constantly monitor whether or not you are using approved games, programs and media. No thanks. (thanks Peter Gutmann) If none of us buy it, if none of us are suckered into wanting it for the mythical DirectX 10 and the games that aren't out yet then perhaps it'll be rushed back to the labs and made more consumer friendly. Yah, like that'll ever happen. I won't get it until forced too either.
I remember when the catchall symbol for stupid was supposed to be the Polish Navy as far as politically uncorrect jokes about general stupidity was concerned. (Something about screen doors on their submarines and such) I remember jokes in Ohio revolved around bumpkin Kentucky, using sometimes the same jokes I heard in elementary school about the stupid group of the day. Now we have a new standard in stupid groups of people which nicely enough doesn't target a ethnic group or a whole state of people (that could be argued), yes indeed, the past home of President John Adams (second President) and John Quincy Adams (sixth President) is now most famous for stupid officials in Boston who blow up Aqua Teen Hunger Force lightboards which are mistaken for bombs. I look forward to hearing all those old jokes retold. Did you hear the one about the Boston Navy and how their submarines kept sinking? How many Bostonian's does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Gotta stay far far away from Boston and their Keystone Cops and common sense deprived public officals.
You are welcomed. I bought this card a while back when I saw how the wind was blowing and figured I wouldn't be able to get a hdtv card much longer. DRM and protection schemes and all. And while I'm not an expert in any of it, it doesn't seem to me that there are a lot of hdtv cards out there now. I'll use the card when I build a new computer cause as far as I can tell, nothing new out there will give me the even the limited freedom of use I have with this card. Sad to say.
That would be the ATI HDTV/Analog Wonder Card. Don't have MythTV, it's on Windows XP. Use it to watch over the air HDTV, like football games and episodes of House and 24. The HDTV stuff looks beautiful on my old crt, the stuff from regular cable looks like fuzzy crap. And I never try to record anything anyways which is the funny part. Thanks for asking.
Kind of like when I put my tv card in my windows xp box and it informed me that since I didn't have drm crap enabled, my picture would be downgraded. Obviously Windows folks do everything possible for our safety and enjoyment and in order to provide the 'best windows experience possible' Yeah, right. Like I would believe these guys if they said anything. Like a previous poster who mentioned the Orwellian way of speaking, war is peace and other fun ways to confuse reality with words meaning something else.
Oh yeah, I remember the good old days when I could pick up a USB drive and be able to plug it in and simply move files back and forth as it was intended. Simple. Bought a USB drive from Best Buy and it was garbage. It wanted to - for my convenience - load crap software on my computer and generally was a pain in the ass trying to use it for what I wanted. Next USB flash drive I bought I had to sit there for twenty minutes to find one, more expensive, that would allow me to use it without having all that crap software/spyware on it. Definitely not an improvement.
I gotta be cold, hungry and drink red wine in moderation while eating fish and vegetables if I want to live longer. And apparently become a Super Villian. As long as I don't have to have that fake Austrian accent.
Man, and what's up with all the stuff I now have to do to write a comment? Geez.
Perfectly reasonable but ultimately useless I'm afraid. Still and all, I won't buy the game if that helps any.
Remember when cable tv came out and one of the things they said about it was that you would get commercial free tv? Remember when you could watch PBS and they advertized that an advantage of Public TV was the absense of ads and commercials? Ya, I can't remember these things either. PBS shows are the same length as regular commercial tv shows and the spare time is spent showing you ads and commercials for the proud sponsors who brought the show to you. Cable TV, well heck, not only do you get commercials, you get half a day of commercials/infomercials on most of the cable networks and then another third of the channels are shopping networks selling you either fake gem jewelry or jesus. Commercials and ads in your games are product placements and they're the thin wedge which just keeps pressing on you until you give up fighting it. A little bit here, a little push there and they'll soon have you further wired and hooked into the stuff they want to sell you. After all, your car advertises the make and model and where you bought it. You buy shirts advertising the brand on the chest and you buy tee shirts advertising everything from the Tequila you think is cool to the Car you wish you had. And after all, buying things is your duty anyways. Didn't President Bush and all the government authorities tell us after 9-11 to go about our business of living our lives and buying things?
Some folks will pay for the convenience of it rather than hunting and pecking and surfing along the web finding or not finding the kind of music or talk they want to listen to. And if Sirius can sell that to John Q Public then good for them, everybody wins. Even the fanboys who say you can find music and talk on your own on the web can feel superior for their greater knowledge of surfing the web. Win Win.
Bullshit. You say "I empathize with the legitimate desire to protect kids, but it relies on the fallacies that children/teens do not have adequate coping mechanisms and/or are better off in ignorance." Nobody has adequate coping mechanisms for everything that can possibly happen. Your prescription seems to be that well, since you can't protect them 24/7 then it's no use in doing anything is liberal claptrap. You claim by saying 'The fact is...blah blah blah...." that makes it a fact. Sorry, I learned that debate trick as well and your facts are not facts but your opinions dressed up as facts. In reality (my debate trick back to you), and in my opinion, you can protect your children and have an obligation to do so. You do the best job at protecting them that you can. Certainly they will become aware of the bad things in the world, and as a parent or a government even you have an obligation to make them aware of those bad things. The government, the society itself has laws to deal with those who prey on children. You as a parent, have an obligation to protect your child/children. If you're a parent do your job. Your nonsensical pablum about trusting your kids rather than protecting your kids is just that - nonsense.
Look, I don't how many kids you've raised but the child/parent relationship is one you have to work at. It's not 'let the kids have their way or they'll kill you in your sleep' - if your kids are running around doing the things with computers that are suggested here, if you have parents who are wondering about routers and other ways of blocking what the kids are doing you've already completely failed as a parent. As the parent you are responsible, period. As the parent you are teaching, guiding, and helping your kids grow to adulthood. If you think that means letting your child have full and completely unguided access to computers and a car and the house and your credit cards then your kid might grow up alright but the chances for the big crash coming are greatly increased. If you choose to be a parent and guide them, directing them from a young age, teaching them right from wrong then this whole crap about kids going behind the backs of their parents isn't going to happen. Look, I hear from other parents who say to me, 'man, you are hard core on your kids - you have to let them be free.' - Well those parents who have said that to me have had to bail their kids out of jail, spend thousands of dollars on cleaning up their criminal records, begged their kids to go to college, have buried their kids and otherwise reaped the bitter harvest of their lack of parenting. And still they think they are right in their laizze faire attitude toward their kids. My son's close to graduating with a double E engineering degree, straight A, a good young man who knows right from wrong and who will be able to lead the kind of life he wants. If I let him do his own thing when he was younger he wouldn't have taken the hard classes, he wouldn't have had me over his shoulder pushing him to do his homework before anything else, reminding him that the choices he makes at twelve affect him when he's eighteen. Did I ever take his Playstation away, his computer away? Hell yes. It's called parenting. Belittle it all you want, be as witty and have as superior an attitude as you want but I've made the right choices in something that important to me and my family.
Ya, it's easy to take care of all of this BS. Pull the plug on the computer. That'll get the boy's attention. And then if and when you ever plug it back in, put the damn thing in the living room. If you don't want us seeing what you're doing that's a good clue that you shouldn't be doing it. Don't like it? There's the door. Punk ass kid.
There is no way you can make a rational argument that dogs actually can cause people to go out and murder people. Son of Sam was a head case as it was and you know, his dog didn't actually talk to him. Now as for pornography, there is an argument to be made that violent porn can encourage someone to further his or her violent fantasies. I don't know if that is true or not but I do know you can make a argument to that effect. I do believe that pornography is used to sexually stimulate the viewer and whether it's women in french maid outfits or kiddie porn, - it's designed to stimulate the intended audience. Kiddie porn is against the law and possession of it is a crime. I think it's even a crime if it's not real children now. The reasoning is because it stimulates pedeophiles to commit crimes against children. It seems to me that if you have and enjoy violent porn the same reasoning should apply. You are someone who is likely to violently assault women/boys/whatever in the future when the pictures don't do it for you anymore. And your civil liberties do not extend to harming other people and society has a right to protect itself from those who will harm it.
You know, I'm real tired of these scientists taking out and changing things I know and accept. Pluto is the ninth planet and that's it. No 10 percent of a bunch of geeks attending a conference in some third world country is going to change the number of planets there are that revolve around the sun. Geeks attending a conference. Scientist geeks who have something against the planet Pluto. Probably the same geeky retards who tried to get the US to change to metric. Even the NASA scientists said this is bogus and I agree. And besides, I'm still steaming mad about whoever the heck it was that decided the Brontasaurus didn't exist anymore. Way to go douchbags, teach us about the Brontasaurus then long after I'm out of school say oops! Sorry, that's something else entirely, our bad. Right. No wonder so many Americans are willing to disbelieve evolution these days, the geek patrol nazi's can't seem to keep the same story.
Very good, very good. Admitting guilt for someone who isn't here to defend himself isn't exactly very smart. Good friend, well done.
Well said and well spoken. The first troll that answered your post is an example of what part of the problem is. His opinion and his thoughts matter, not yours or mine. He feels comfortable cussing and calling names since of course - you don't matter, your opinion doesn't matter and since it's not his opinion you are a bleeping idiot. Thinking like that makes it okay to ban smoking in restaurants and everywhere else now. Taking the freedom away from the restaurant that can allow smoking or not is okay since they're idiots and people who go to restaurants are idiots and so we need to decide what's right for them and then tell them what to do. And while we're at it, and since controlling every aspect of people is going so well let's outlaw sharing of songs or even figuring out how to play a song. Let's make it so that you can't copy something you see on tv and let's fill music cd's and dvd's full of copy protection so they won't even play in some cd or dvd players. And if you figured out a couple of bars of the latest Los Lonely Boys single then whoa are you in trouble.
I never used OLGA, it was always or seemed to always be spotty and there are plenty of other sites online that provide tabs and links to tabs more efficiently. Having said that, it's sad to see it go. One more avenue for free expression of user made tab interpretations of songs gone. Gone but replaced already. And if anything, being able to learn guitar, to be able to call up in an instant a tab or five for one song I'm learning on my guitar has sent me off buying those Mel Bay tab books and compilation tab books all the more quickly. So the scummy, evil lawyers and their false claim of harm is on the face of it, absurd. It's also just the grinding justification that such lawyers use to justify their own existence as they troll along like lampreys looking to attach themselves to something bigger and better. On the other hand,I pat myself on the back for buying Guitar Pro 5 early while they still had the whole catalog of guitar pro tabs to download with it so I have a good sized library of tabs I can hear. Yup, they closed down that tab collection down but it sprung right back up in a couple of places.
No, it's 'you're the idiot' idiot. And I don't have to jump off a bridge to know that it's a long way down. I read boards like this one to see and hear the collective wisdom of everybody. Any inclination I had to try any game with 'Steam' went away as I heard the discussion about it. Simple. Enough people tell you something is crap you don't need to stick your face in it to see that it's crap. Do you understand that concept? But by all means, you go ahead and ignor what other people say and try everything yourself. The original discussion was about what we think about the claim that piracy has eroded pc game sales. My point was that copy protection and the basic hosing of my computer by various copy schemes is what has put me off buying pc games. I remember reading about all the problems that Steam caused computer owners and no amount of calling me a troll or an idiot will change that. No amount of name calling will change the fact that I and many other people will not buy games that put more than the game on their computers. You can't yell us down, shout us down or intimiate us down and make us quiet. I won't put a game or a program on my computer that needs to call home to see if I'm allowed to play. I won't put a game or a program on my computer that reports back to whoever about what I look at, buy or research. Feel free to advocate for the company you work for but I doubt that you'll be able to keep me from having an opinion.
And you're just another anonymous coward. If I have the particulars wrong about steam I do know all I need to know - that it farks up my computer. I don't need to put games on my computer to know what I'm hearing from everyone else. Idiot.
I would buy a game when I knew I could find a no-cd crack for it. It just annoys the hell out of me that I can buy and load other programs up on my computer but this 50 dollar game is so important that it needs me to feed it the install disk every time I want to play it. I've read here about the evil thing called 'Steam' and I've not put anything on my computer that has that. I'm thinking all new games have this crap or a variation of this crap and so I don't even look at PC games anymore. If PC game sales are down it's because of this sort of thing. You developers make it hard for me to enjoy and play a game by wanting to infiltrate my computer with your software protection stuff and phone home features and you know, I don't need it. Wake me up when they start advertising games without the copy protection and which allow me to actually load them up without having to keep track of the install disk. Im not holding my breath on that one though.
You decided to not believe the police statement that the kids 'stripped every branch from the tree' - and in even words you could understand -that would destroy the tree. And if the tree, stripped and damaged, still managed to survive and in ten years actually began to look like a tree again then you would still have the damage done by the kids. But again,if you won't believe the police statement in this then argue that point. Don't argue that the tree wasn't destroyed if it's branches were stripped. And destroying public property is still a crime. And if you wanted to go into a National Forest and cut down a Christmas tree - you - would - need - a - permit - for - it. Trees are there on public property for the public good. Not the individual desires if you happened to want the wood from that tree.