This came across as a surprisingly weird thing for a scientist to say. It is generally understood that pre-agricultural societies had far more free time than we do. It is also generally accepted that "love" is a manifestation of our natural pair-bonding instinct (which is now filtered, admittedly, through the modern notion of "romantic love" which has been around since the late middle ages). The quote seems to imply that we're not sure if they had gotten around to having emotions yet, which is rather rediculous.
Thanks. As a GPL user, I also cringed at that comment. RMS's only real mistake is turning the GPL into an ideology. Ideologies only serve to polarize people. It's freaking SOFTWARE for crying out loud.
Having said that, I don't like when people rip me off, and I don't like it when people take credit for my work. The GPL prevents that, while the BSD license does not.
You know, i'd figure this to be true, but I am NOT one of those people... and I loved both GOW games (just finished 2 yesterday).
My other favorites are the Civilizations, Zeldas and Final Fantasies, although I am a fan of well-done games period. And Gears are very, very well done games. Yes, they're on-rails shooters, and yes the characters are super-macho. But damn do they get the heat of combat down straight, and the pacing and strategy (yes, there is strategy) are just perfectly tuned.
The thing is, reality often has a bias. Sometimes the media tries to create an artificial one, to great detriment (see: the "controversy" over global warming when in fact there really isn't one.)
Maybe there was just more bad stuff to say about McCain (and particularly his VP pick). Or maybe they were easy on Obama, this is also possible, granted.
I asked this question in Bio a few years ago. The answer is that earth atmosphere is now full of O2, which of course is a strong oxidizer and prevents the build-up of complex, unprotected organic molecules. This O2 was created BY early organisms, so it wasn't a problem FOR them. In fact, it has been supposed that the formation of significant amounts of O2 probably killed most of the life on earth. Life today is well capable of protecting itself from the damaging effects of oxygen, but unprotected organics would have a rough go.
Examples? We up here always sort of snicker when we read slanderous things about American Democrats having "hidden socialist agendas" or even being "liberal" (Is it a bad word down there or something?). Truthfully, I haven't heard a single American politician even approach (from the right) what a Canadian or European would consider a moderate or centrist viewpoint.
This article is a troll... the old one contained a wordy summary of his position, which has now been replaced with "Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet."
Yeah, i thought maybe I should qualify that statement, but I didn't because it was getting wordy... I didn't mean to imply homosexuality was necessarily bad, just that society has more or less successfully repressed it for centuries as a social taboo. Sorry if I've offended.
My anthropology background has shown me that social stigmas are very powerfull tools for preventing destructive behaviour. When it was socially unacceptable for women to work, they by and large didn't. We stigmatize obesity, bullying, homosexuality etc. partly as ways to control these things, often with great success. But for some reason video game pirates are viewed as digial robin hoods, which is, IMO, kinda fucked.
Regarding the moderation, I will reiterate: modding me down for saying something you disagree with, is not a valid use of the moderation system.
thanks man, i'd mod you up but obviously I can't. As someone who has a lot of very poor artist friends, I get pretty worked up about this. Poor artists can't make art - they waste most of their valuable time pouring coffee at starbucks for dipshits like this guy.
(i've been modded down so much for discussing this i can't believe it - seriously, stifling contrarian opinion is NOT what moderation was designed for, but whatever - my karma is more or less maxed anyhow).
And why the hell wouldn't I bat for them?? They make video games, one of my favorite things to do! These guys slave away rediculous hours making things that blow me away, and I'm willing to give them money for it. That makes me a shill?? You're fucked, buddy.
Thats some great justification, buddy. Glad you can sleep okay. Their art isn't YOURS to give away - if you believe as you do, then just play the open source games and stop being a self-centered prick.
I'm not asking pirates to care, I'm asking slashdot readers to stop defacto encouraging them by criticising the alternative (paying for the copy protected discs). When is the last time copy protection actually HURT you? I know its sort-of annoying, but I've never personally been bitten, and I'm sure it isn't that difficult to call and have your key reset anyway. Not worth getting all huffy and boycotting the developer, IMO.
I think what we have to do, as a community, is stop bitching at the game developers, and start bitching out the dirty bastards who steal games and ruin it for the rest of us! Seriously, hardly any breath is spent on criticising these leaches. In fact, I bet I see it justified several times over the course of this thread. If it becomes socially unacceptable, people will stop doing it so much. Right now, stories like this just work as justification for more theft.
I'm gonna agree, with the additional statement that Vista is wonderful AFTER I upgrade my RAM from 2GB to 4GB. Vista Ultimate (x64) is a pretty decent upgrade from XP, and I wouldn't consider going back.
(disclaimer: I also have a macbook and a linux server. All have their drawbacks, all have their strengths. I'm just comparing Vista to XP here.)
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This came across as a surprisingly weird thing for a scientist to say. It is generally understood that pre-agricultural societies had far more free time than we do. It is also generally accepted that "love" is a manifestation of our natural pair-bonding instinct (which is now filtered, admittedly, through the modern notion of "romantic love" which has been around since the late middle ages). The quote seems to imply that we're not sure if they had gotten around to having emotions yet, which is rather rediculous.
Thanks. As a GPL user, I also cringed at that comment. RMS's only real mistake is turning the GPL into an ideology. Ideologies only serve to polarize people. It's freaking SOFTWARE for crying out loud.
Having said that, I don't like when people rip me off, and I don't like it when people take credit for my work. The GPL prevents that, while the BSD license does not.
You know, i'd figure this to be true, but I am NOT one of those people... and I loved both GOW games (just finished 2 yesterday).
My other favorites are the Civilizations, Zeldas and Final Fantasies, although I am a fan of well-done games period. And Gears are very, very well done games. Yes, they're on-rails shooters, and yes the characters are super-macho. But damn do they get the heat of combat down straight, and the pacing and strategy (yes, there is strategy) are just perfectly tuned.
The thing is, reality often has a bias. Sometimes the media tries to create an artificial one, to great detriment (see: the "controversy" over global warming when in fact there really isn't one.)
Maybe there was just more bad stuff to say about McCain (and particularly his VP pick). Or maybe they were easy on Obama, this is also possible, granted.
I asked this question in Bio a few years ago. The answer is that earth atmosphere is now full of O2, which of course is a strong oxidizer and prevents the build-up of complex, unprotected organic molecules. This O2 was created BY early organisms, so it wasn't a problem FOR them. In fact, it has been supposed that the formation of significant amounts of O2 probably killed most of the life on earth. Life today is well capable of protecting itself from the damaging effects of oxygen, but unprotected organics would have a rough go.
I stopped reading at "DemocRat".
Examples? We up here always sort of snicker when we read slanderous things about American Democrats having "hidden socialist agendas" or even being "liberal" (Is it a bad word down there or something?). Truthfully, I haven't heard a single American politician even approach (from the right) what a Canadian or European would consider a moderate or centrist viewpoint.
There is no such thing as a "hardline, left-wing Democrat" in the United States.
This article is a troll... the old one contained a wordy summary of his position, which has now been replaced with "Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet."
What's the concern?
The type of fear they're discussing though is the primal kind, associated with avoiding physical harm.
Please see post below re: homosexuality comment. I just meant we've managed to repress it pretty well by labelling it a social taboo.
Yeah, i thought maybe I should qualify that statement, but I didn't because it was getting wordy... I didn't mean to imply homosexuality was necessarily bad, just that society has more or less successfully repressed it for centuries as a social taboo. Sorry if I've offended.
Uhm, you realize we DID make killing people illegal for exactly that reason, right? *eyeroll*
My anthropology background has shown me that social stigmas are very powerfull tools for preventing destructive behaviour. When it was socially unacceptable for women to work, they by and large didn't. We stigmatize obesity, bullying, homosexuality etc. partly as ways to control these things, often with great success. But for some reason video game pirates are viewed as digial robin hoods, which is, IMO, kinda fucked.
Regarding the moderation, I will reiterate: modding me down for saying something you disagree with, is not a valid use of the moderation system.
thanks man, i'd mod you up but obviously I can't. As someone who has a lot of very poor artist friends, I get pretty worked up about this. Poor artists can't make art - they waste most of their valuable time pouring coffee at starbucks for dipshits like this guy.
(i've been modded down so much for discussing this i can't believe it - seriously, stifling contrarian opinion is NOT what moderation was designed for, but whatever - my karma is more or less maxed anyhow).
And why the hell wouldn't I bat for them?? They make video games, one of my favorite things to do! These guys slave away rediculous hours making things that blow me away, and I'm willing to give them money for it. That makes me a shill?? You're fucked, buddy.
Thats some great justification, buddy. Glad you can sleep okay. Their art isn't YOURS to give away - if you believe as you do, then just play the open source games and stop being a self-centered prick.
I'm not asking pirates to care, I'm asking slashdot readers to stop defacto encouraging them by criticising the alternative (paying for the copy protected discs). When is the last time copy protection actually HURT you? I know its sort-of annoying, but I've never personally been bitten, and I'm sure it isn't that difficult to call and have your key reset anyway. Not worth getting all huffy and boycotting the developer, IMO.
The gaming community has been suing thieves? I demand linkage.
how the hell did I get redundant? I'm the first person to voice this (unpopular) view. Fuck I hate this site sometimes.
I think what we have to do, as a community, is stop bitching at the game developers, and start bitching out the dirty bastards who steal games and ruin it for the rest of us! Seriously, hardly any breath is spent on criticising these leaches. In fact, I bet I see it justified several times over the course of this thread. If it becomes socially unacceptable, people will stop doing it so much. Right now, stories like this just work as justification for more theft.
STOP GODDAMN STEALING!
DO NOT TRY THIS. You'll build a time machine, not a reverse microwave!
I'm gonna agree, with the additional statement that Vista is wonderful AFTER I upgrade my RAM from 2GB to 4GB. Vista Ultimate (x64) is a pretty decent upgrade from XP, and I wouldn't consider going back.
(disclaimer: I also have a macbook and a linux server. All have their drawbacks, all have their strengths. I'm just comparing Vista to XP here.)
wtf
Packed into a single proton?? Yep, a little scared.